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From: 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao)
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Subject: Re: hyperdisk installed anyone?
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Date: 21 Mar 91 07:26:09 GMT
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 The "backup before use" is a standard warning in
many, many, many programs.  That way authors don't
have users scream at them when power-surge gremlins
smash their FATs into little bits or whatnot.  
 
The only thing to be careful with HyperDisk is
staged-writing.  Basically it doesn't write to the
drive right away; it waits around until the computer
is free, and even then it won't write everything at
once.  Now, this of course can be a problem if
you're reset-button happy or you accidently shut
your computer off (it does intercept Ctrl-Alt-Del so
you don't have to worry about rebooting that way).
Anyways, when I installed HyperDisk for the first
time I locked my hard drives (made them unwriteable)
and tried out the cache.  It worked fine, so I went
on ahead and tried write-caching to a floppy disk.
Worked fine, so I finally enabled one of my
partitions (my games partition) and proceeded to do
a lot of reading/writing/etc.  Even used PC Tools
Compress/DiskFix/etc and everything worked a-o.k,
and now I use HyperDisk every day (and I LOVE it!  I
highly recommend buying SpeedKit, you get a nice
manual, HyperDisk, HyperScreen, and HyperKey).


--
Parik Rao, University of California Santa Barbara
6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu