Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bmerh2!bmerh768!yiky
From: yiky@bmerh768.BNR.CA (YikHon Yu)
Subject: Re: Stacker and Windows 3
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.183901.8732@bmerh2.bnr.ca>
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Reply-To: yiky@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References:  <1991Jun26.041734.20046@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 18:39:01 GMT


In article <1991Jun26.041734.20046@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>,
s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Miramar [Eugene Mok]) writes:
|> 
|> Has anyone out there used Stacker ( a device driver to compress files
|> to hard disk on-the-fly) with Windows 3? Is it safe? How much of a speed
|> loss is there when accessing the HD? Can it be loaded high?
|> 

I'm using the coprocessor version of Stacker with DOS 5.0 and 386^max.
My Win3 directory is in one of my Stacker partitions (and obviously
runs from that partition). The Stacker driver is loaded into UMB with
386^max and I haven't noticed any detectable slow down in Windows (even
just running the software-only version of Stacker). One thing to keep
in mind is the Win3 permanent swapfile must NOT reside on a Stacker
partition.

|> And what's the most stable disk cache for use with stacker and Windows 3?
|> How do would you compare Hyperdisk and Super PC-Kwik?
|> 

I have used SMARTDRV, PC-Cache (PC-Tools Ver. 6) and HyperDisk 4.21
with Win3 and Stacker without running into any problems. Although
HyperDisk 4.21 does offer noticable better performance on my system.


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