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- From: claborne@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Chris Claborne)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: SCSI drives and Windows (problems)
- Message-ID: <5666@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 05:05:46 GMT
- References: <18AUG199210434176@summa.tamu.edu>
- Organization: NCR Corp., Network Products - San Diego
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- In <18AUG199210434176@summa.tamu.edu> kbm8572@summa.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN) writes:
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- > I have a 386/33 with an Adaptec 1542A SCSI controller, a 120MB Maxtor,
- >installed Windows 3.1:
- > 1. Creation of a permanent swap file causes Windows to be unstable
- > (lost groups, numerous crashes, a lot of general protection
- > faults, etc.).
- > 2. I think that the new SMARTDRV.EXE is causing erratic behavior in
- > programs when I'm not in Windows.
- > 3. SMARTDRV.EXE does not behave according to the documentation. There
- > is no way for me to disable the write-cache; it's either all or
- > none.
- >Has anyone else with a similar setup had these problems, or (better yet) does
- >anyone have a fix? BTW I'm using the ASPI driver from Adaptec not AHA1540.SYS.
- Ther is a problem with smart drive if you don't start it like:
- device=C:\WIN3\SMARTDRV.EXE /double_buffer
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- Do you have the /double_buffer in ther?
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- chris.claborne@sandiegoca.ncr.com CI$: 76340.2422
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