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- From: tackett@cs.utk.edu (Jack Tackett)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Help needed: file read/write errors
- Date: 10 Nov 92 01:28:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <lfu423INNhre@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
- References: <4414@winnie.fit.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
- Summary: smartdrive blows chunks
-
- In article <4414@winnie.fit.edu> rpollack@zach.fit.edu (Randy Pollack) writes:
- [ stuff deleted ]
- >I guess my question is - has anybody else experienced problems like this,
- >and, if so, do they seem related to either MS Windows, SMARTDRV, or
- >Turbo Pascal? I'm at a loss as to how to advise my customers without
- >a better idea as to what's going on.
-
- pardon me while I climb up on my soap box ......
- Inevidebly(sp) almost every problem ( except 2) I've had in the past six
- months I've solved by taking smartdrive off the affected systems. At least
- out of the config.sys - If absoluted needed I leave it in autoexec.bat.
- I've been
- - unable to load and run codeview until removing smartdrive
- - lost massive amounts of sectors/clusters on three machines
- - been unable to switch batch files and reboot - the cache isn't flushed-
- sometimes for as long as 5 secs(this is configurable though)
- - smartdrive and scsi's get along sooooo wellll ( even with double buffers )
- NOT!
- - been unable to use a cd-rom until smartdrive moved to autoexec.bat
- (the above is not exclusive and represents my opinions and not those of
- UT or my employer)
- thankyou.......
- --Jack
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