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- From: rdempste@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Rob Dempster)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Disk cache for Novell network drives?????
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:20:16 GMT
- Organization: Dept. Computer Science, UNP
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- Keywords: disk cache network drive
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- I am currently in the process of considering migrating to Windows 3.1
- I am running Windows 3.1 on a 25Mhz 80486SX with 8 MB of RAM and a 40 MB hard
- disk. I have a 2 MB SMARTDRV disk cache running and this makes the software
- that I run from the hard drive very snappy. Unfortunately I also have to pull
- some applications of a Novell LAN server and this really slows things down.
- I have tried some fixes such as putting my Borland C include files on the
- local hard drive. I would have put the library files there as well but don't
- have the space. So at the moment it seems that I will have to get a larger
- drive or find a driver similar to SMARTDRV that works with Novell file
- server drives? I would be most interested to hear whether such a driver
- exists or alternatively any other advice that would be useful.
- Please email any hints/advice to the address given below. Thanks!!
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- rdempste@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za department of computer science
- dempster@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za university of natal
- p o box 375
- fax : +27 331 955599 3200 pietermaritzburg
- ph : +27 331 955645/46/50 south africa
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