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- From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
- Subject: Re: WARNING !!!!! MS WINDOWS 3.1 SmartDrive Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.231920.13773@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <1992Aug13.040731.2286@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 23:19:20 EDT
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- In article@cs.mcgill.ca> tennis@cs.mcgill.ca (Pascal PROULX) writes:
- >...Online BBS and is an important warning for all MS WINDOWS 3.1 users.
- >"After considerable testing, I have discovered a major problem with the
- >version of SmartDrive included with Windows 3.1. The default installation
- >of SMARTDRV.EXE enables write caching on your hard disks. Most often this
- >is not a problem but, under certain circumstances, it could crash your hard
- >disk. ...
- >SOLUTION :
- >Disable write-caching in SmartDrive. This is not a documented in the Windows
- >...Original Line (substitute your own drive information)
- >C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
- >Altered line to disable write-caching : (again, supply your own drive info)
- >C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE C D E (list all hard drives)
-
- >This modification will disable write-caching. You will get a minor slowdown
- >in Windows, but it won't be too noticeable.
-
- Better yet, setup windows to use a seperate partition, the size you want for
- the swap file or so. Allow smartcache to write cache to this drive, then
- if this drive crashes you won't lose any information. (or very limited
- info as the partition is smal and intended just for swap type files...
-
- (aka set windows to swap to E, then
- C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE C D
- This disables write caching to drives c & d, but leaves it enabled to e.
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- al
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