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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: swapfile trouble
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.232017.2982@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 23:20:17 GMT
References: <5174.2770c349@cc.curtin.edu.au> <1990Dec20.125859.29782@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <1990Dec20.125859.29782@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rb9a@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Raul  Baragiola) writes:
>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.
>>
>
>If you learn something useful, please share it with us!
>
>Happy Holidays!
>

Hmm, windows doesn't seem to mind me having a permanent swapfile on logical
drive N on my CDC-Wren IV on an Adaptec AHA5142B SCSI controller.

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