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From: rb9a@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Raul  Baragiola)
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Subject: Re: swapfile trouble
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Date: 20 Dec 90 12:58:59 GMT
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In article <5174.2770c349@cc.curtin.edu.au> Thomson_PW@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>I have trouble creating a permanent swapfile in windows V3.
>
>Every time I try and run swapfile a error message pops up telling
>that there is a conflicting divice driver in config.sys.
>I have tried taking out several drivers and even deleting the file
>but nothing seems to work. 
>My computer is as follows;
>
>386/20 Eeto 
>4 meg ram
>Evervision EGA + 512k Eagle(?) card
>65m hd.
>

So far we have heard many reports on this; the common factor seems
to be the use of a SCSI hard-disk interface, which Windows seems to
have problems dealing with.

>config.sys goes somthing like this;
>files=30
>buffers=30
>device=ansi.sys
>      =himem.sys
>      =smartdrv.sys
>
>also is there any speed advantages using a perm swapfile?
>there seems to be when I am using a 33mhz computer.

There are speed advantages; they are more noticeable when you have many
applications and files open and you keep switching from one to the other.

>
>Please Email me with any advice.
>

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Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
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