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- From: nauck@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Detlef Nauck)
- Subject: Smartdrv of Win 3.1 makes my system go asleep!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.141852.13165@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Originator: nauck@neuro.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
- Sender: postnntp@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (nntp inews entry)
- Reply-To: nauck@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Detlef Nauck)
- Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:18:52 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- today I installed Windows 3.1 on my 486 DX 33 Mhz clone, and was very much
- surprised when I started to work under DOS or Windows.
-
- The PC was about 10 TIMES SLOWER when it came to reading from the harddisk.
-
- This could be noticed during boot time, and when switching drives under
- PCSHELL (which I use as my main DOS shell to start programs, etc.). Turning
- of the write cache didn't change anything, and without double buffering my
- system hung.
- After replacing the new SMARTDRV installed by Windows (with double buffering
- as I have a SCSI 338MB drive) with the old DOS 5.0 version of SMARTDRV
- everything turned back to normal.
-
- So what does the new SMARTDRV do to my system? Doesn't it like SCSI drives?
- Is it save to use the old SMARTDRV with Windows 3.1? I could also use
- PCCACHE from PCTOOLS 7.1, what about this?
- I will investigate further, but perhaps someone of you has an idea.
-
- My hardware:
- Mainboard: 486 DX 33 Mhz, 256 KB Cache, Bios: American Megatrend 1990
- dated 07/07/91
- Controller: Adapatec AT/SCSI Bios 3.10
- Harddrive : 338 MB
- Video : Sigma Legend II 1MB
- Memory : 8 MB
-
- Configuration:
- 1536 KB as expanded memory
- 1024 KB ramdrive
- 2048 KB for smartdrv (1024 under Windows)
-
- Resident programs:
- monitor.com (for having 70Hz under 1024x768, from Sigma Legend)
- datamonitor from PCTOOLS (delete tracker and screenblanker)
- mirror from PCTOOLS
- driver for ethernet card (3c501 driver under DOS, pktint of winqvt net)
- mouse driver
- doskey
- swapshell of PCTOOLS
-
- Cheers,
-
- Detlef.
-