Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!uokmax!occrsh!att!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!medici From: medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: QEMM5 & DV 2.26 Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 90 03:01:25 GMT References: <12262@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2555@zipeecs.umich.edu> Reply-To: medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 47 In article <2555@zipeecs.umich.edu> shim@eecs.umich.edu (Sam Shim) writes: >In article <12262@shlump.nac.dec.com> reisert@tallis.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes: >>Hmmm. I didn't catch this thread. However, since the PC Tools v 5.5 cache >>was licensed from Multisoft, shouldn't it have worked just as well as Super >>PC-Kwik? I can see there maybe being problems with the version 6 cache, >>however. Though I haven't experienced any. > >Central Point Software licensed a stripped down version of Super PC-Kwik from >Multisoft, and I guess that version doesn't have the extra code to allow it >to run properly with Desqview. >I'm not sure if the 6.0 version works with Desqview or not. I'll stick with >Super PC-Kwik, because of its superior performance. I browsed this thread on CIS, and it seemed to me like there were a very few people who actually had experienced the problem, and a large number of people theorizing over how it might happen or worrying about voodoo magic that they have no control over. If I recall, there was also some discussion whether the Disk-Manager driver, dmdvr.bin, might have contributed to the problem. I do not recall anything ever being proved, one way or the other. I have been using the PC-Tools 5.5 version of PC-Cache with DesqView/386 on my system at home for as long as PCT55 has been available. This includes QEMM and DV from versions 4.21/2.24 respectively through current (with several interations of beta code in between). I have never had any trouble with my hard disk, a Priam ID100 RLL drive, as a result. I will continue with this configuration in spite of receiving the new cache in PCT60, since I believe it is faster. At work I have DV/386 running with PC-Kwik SuperPack, only I'm just using the cache at the present. Again, absolutely no problem with that IBM 115MB drive. How does one determine that the cache program is at fault? Can the failure be consistantly repeated on two separate (although equivalently configured) systems? Does the problem consistantly NOT happen when one disk cache is replaced by another, or when no disk cache is used? Have different HD/Controllers been tried? I would be more inclined to believe this is a system incompatibility (e.g., drive/controller/cache/multitasker as a single, complete, interlocking unit) than pointing my finger at just the caching program. */Rutgers disclaims all responsibility for the content of this message./* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Medici/SysProg3 * Rutgers University/CCIS * medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------