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From: cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cheng Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Windows 3, Disk cache
Keywords: Windows 3 , Disk cache
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.101829.29772@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 17:18:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.173004.26753@ugle.unit.no>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <1991Jan23.173004.26753@ugle.unit.no> laurits@itk.unit.no (Ottar L. Osen) writes:
>If i use Windows 3's disk cache in my config.sys it locks up.
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>I have a Seagate ST251R disk, and an Western Digital controller.
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>It seems to me that my controller does som sector translaton etc.
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>I use Disk Managers driver.
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>Norton 6.0 cache works, but is not compatible with Windows.
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>Does anyone out there know a solution that gives me caching under
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>windows?
>
>
>Thanks in advance


I also have problem with the SMARTDRV.SYS which comes with Windows 3.0
When I installed Windows' SMARTDRV.SYS, the transfer rate is SIGNIFICANTLY
LOWER than when I used DOS 4.0's SMARTDRV.SYS.  Maybe there IS a bug in
Windows' SMARTDRV.SYS. Does anybody here know why? I suggest you use the 
one which is provided by DOS.  It works fine with Windows.

Good luck.

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