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From: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: QC42 and PC-TOOLS compress
Message-ID: <2468@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:59:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.131555.19402@cs.uow.edu.au>
Reply-To: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts)
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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In article <1991Apr7.131555.19402@cs.uow.edu.au> u9039899@cs.uow.edu.au (Darrin Jon Smart) writes:
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>Has anyone tried to run the COMPRESS defragmenter at the same time as
>QuickCache (recently posted in cbip). Compress warns not to have any TSR's
>loaded but works fine under PC-Cache.

You are asking for trouble if you have any cacheing program active
while running PC Tools COMPRESS (poor choice of names!) except
PC-Cache (PC Quik) - not just for the consolidation function, but also
for the surface scan.  And I have learned the hard way that you should
not use memory resident software when running PC Backup 6.0 from the
same folks.  I did, then upgraded my AMI ROM BIOS a week ago for a new
IDE disk.  All backups done under the new BIOS were worthless as
verified by F9 Compare.  High or medium speed - it didn't matter.
When I rebooted clean the problem went away completely.  

Using PC Backup on XTs with TSRs is also asking for trouble.  A friend
did this recently, and her 65 MB of conscientiously done PC Backups
was all worthless when the disk died.  I got rid of her TSRs and
everything worked fine (except for the old backups, of course).

I run Mace cache on my machine because it's faster than PC-Cache (on
my machine) and QRAM can relocate it into high memory without changing
its performance.  Putting PC Cache into high mem is like turning your
hard disk into a big floppy.  I mean to try Hyperdisk and QC with QRAM
ASAP.  Anyone have experience with these combinations?

>While I'm here - how does one set up QC to use the first 256k of extended
>memory (1024k - 1280k)?

Don't they always load from the top?
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Jim Roberts	roberts@stsci.edu	scivax::roberts