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- From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
- Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. : ( help....
- Message-ID: <92351.29836.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
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- Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:21:26 GMT
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- In <1992Dec16.122516.21146@concurrent.co.uk>, Neil Watson writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Aye, 'tis true that the "three-fingered salute" in the middle of an app will
- giving you the "Updating allocation map..." message. I've also encountered
- a "volume damaged" (aka "you should have backed up your hard drive, dummy)
- error on doing so--twice. After the second time I scrapped Stacker and
- have had no more bad sectors arise (version 2.0).
-
- What happens when a program hangs up, though? You can't exit normally and
- gracefully. You have no choice but to reset the machine. I always tried to
- avoid needing to turn the machine off while programs were actively running,
- but it wasn't possible 100% of the time.
-
-
- Tim Irvin
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