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From: psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: TurboC++ 1.01 with smartdrv.sys
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.011919.17349@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 01:19:19 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.202154.24835@math.ucla.edu> rodney@syzygy.math.ucla.edu (Rodney Sinclair) writes:
>Whenever I run TurboC++ 1.01 with smartdrv.sys installed, my c: partition
>(where TurboC resides) gets trashed.  Borland has been unable to recommend
>a fix (other than not using smartdrv.sys).
>
>Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, what did you do to fix it?
>
>I'm using a 25MHz 386 AT clone (PC Brand) with 4MB of memory with c:, d:, and
>e: partitions on a Miniscribe 3085 hard drive.
>
>rodney@math.ucla.edu

This is probably not Turbo C++'s fault ... 
I have had a lot of trouble with smartdrv.sys trashing drives and in
general getting confused, like showing all of the entries in a directory
twice.

I tell anyone who asks to stop using it, period. They almost always stop 
having problems. 

I've found that PC-CACHE in PCTools Deluxe 6.0 works well. I've had
no trouble in approx 6 months of use.

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