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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: SuperStor 2.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.163719.9892@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <93020.160100SASTPH@vm.sas.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:37:19 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- In article <93020.160100SASTPH@vm.sas.com> <SASTPH@vm.sas.com> writes:
- >I'm about to install SuperStor 2.0 (not Pro!) on my Gateway 2000 386DX
- >with an 80Mb IDE hard drive. I'd like to get some advice from people
- >who are using SuperStor.
- >
- >I'm running Windows 3.1 in Enhanced Mode with a 7Mb permanent swap file.
- >I use SMARTDRV and 386MAX. The SuperStor documentation says that I must
- >keep a number of files (the Win swap file, for example) uncompressed.
- >It occurs to me that I could re-format my hard disk and create 2 logical
- >drives. I would make a (say) 10Mb C: drive to contain the uncompressed
- >files and a 70Mb D: drive to contain only compressed data. Would this
- >be a good idea?
-
- Check to see if SuperStor has an option to only compress part of your
- drive and allow you to access the uncompressed part as C:. I would
- think this would be a better option than reformatting your drive. I
- would keep more then 10 MB uncompressed, though.
-
- >
- >Secondly, I understand clearly that I must put the Windows swap file
- >in an uncompressed portion of the disk. Also I must reserve some
- >(although the doc is coy about saying just exactly how much) uncompressed
- >space for SMARTDRV. The SuperStor doc also recommends that some of the
- >386MAX files remain uncompressed. My question is, exactly HOW MUCH
- >space should I reserve, and what files should I keep there?
-
- Don't know -- I've never used SuperStor. However, I use Stacker
- (which I suspect is similar), and I recommend you keep all the files
- you need to boot on the uncompressed part of the drive (all the
- drivers for things loaded in your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS). That
- way, even if your compressed drive gets hosed you can still boot.
- What I suspect SuperStor is doing by default is to compress almost
- your whole disk, keep just a few files on the uncompressed part of the
- drive, and then 'swap' the uncompressed 'C:' drive out and the
- 'compressed' drive in as C:. Stacker has an option to do this, and I
- hate it. You're better off keeping the uncompressed part of your
- drive as C: and keeping all the files needed to boot there. That way
- there are no synchronization problems and you'll be able to boot your
- machine even if the compressed volume gets screwed up.
-
- >
- >Third question: I understand that I can't use many of the PC Tools V7
- >utilities. Can I back up the compressed files on my hard
- >disk with PC Tools Backup? If so, can I restore the backed up files to
- >a disk that isn't compressed?
-
- Yes and yes. As far as everything but 'speed disk' sorts of
- compacters are concerned, I would think the SuperStor drive would look
- just like a regular drive. I know this is true for Stacker and assume
- the same applies to SuperStor.
-
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