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- From: nnw@concurrent.co.uk (Neil Watson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. : ( help....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.122516.21146@concurrent.co.uk>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 12:25:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.163801.27783@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec14.212902.1390@rei.com> <92349.214819RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- In article <92349.214819RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.212902.1390@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) says:
- >>
- >>> I don't think Stacker itself is unstable...either the 1.x or 2.0 or 3.0
- >>>versions, in so much as the comation of Stacker + some operating systems +
- >>>some drivers + some motherboards is unstable. In other words, it no more
- >>>unstable than any other program.
- >>
- >>My experience seems to indicate that Stacker is as (un)stable as the
- >>person using it.
- >>
- >I take exception to this. I am as unstable as they come, but my STACKER
- >1.0 has been plunking along in a 20-meg notebook for 18 months or so.
- >I've got an unopened copy of Stacker 2.0 -- I'm afraid to mess with
- >what's been working ok up 'till now.
- >
- >BobM, PSU-Harrisburg
-
- I suspect that stacker (I use V2.1, but I guess it applies to all
- releases) is rather "picky" about getting stuff actually written to the
- disk!
-
- I run the (Windows 3.1 flavour) SMARTDRV disk cache, and have noticed
- that I seem to get a "rebuilding allocation ..." session on bootup if I
- have NOT taken care on closing down previously. By "taken care" I mean
- executed "smartdrv /c" to flush the buffers before switching off.
-
- I THOUGHT that smartdrv intercepted the 3-fingered-salute and did a
- flush, but it appears not to....
-
-
- I think that this (user) instability may have a lot to do with some of
- the stacker problems that people have. I guess that if you let the PC
- sit for a while before switching off, then the "timed" flush sorts
- things out too.
-
- Pure speculation....
- Neil
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