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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help: NCACHE-F scambles disk!
Keywords: Norton, Cache, NCACHE
Message-ID: <1990Dec8.165948.22387@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 8 Dec 90 16:59:48 GMT
Reply-To: HAKL@ibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
Distribution: comp
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
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I'm using NCACHE-F on an 286 AT with 384k extended memory,
two hard disks with 2 partitions each and 2 disk drives:
a 5 1/4" 1.2M and a 3 1/2" 1.44 M drive.

Everything works fine on the hard disk but goes wrong on
both floppies: When enabling intelligent write the computer
doesn't copy to floppy disk exactly what I want but scambles
some sectors of big files. In fact it seems to happen only when:
- the file is bigger than the cache-memory: 384k
and
- I access the file before it actually has been written

The question, that now arises, is: Is it a feature or is it a bug?
Does anybody have similar problems and/or know how to solve it?
Is there already an error corrected version and where can I get it?
I got my version of Norton Utilities 5.0 yestereday from a local
computer shop as an upgrade from version 4.5.
The filesize and date of my copy of NCACHE-F.EXE is: 49194 9-25-90 5:00p

Klaus
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