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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Ontrack Disk Manager + 80meg seagate = loss of 200k of memory
Summary: Use fewer buffers
Keywords: HELP!
Message-ID: <1436@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 14 Jan 89 19:06:03 GMT
References: <71@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
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Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <71@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes:
> 
> A friend of mine has a 80meg Seagate hard disk that was formatted with the
> Ontrack Disk Manager that came with it.  The problem now is that the driver
> takes up 200k worth of his memory!  He would love to put this driver into his
> new 4.0 LIM/EMS 2+meg of memory so programs, like 3-d perspective in Enable3.0,
> will actually maybe work?!!!
> 
I had the same problem so I called ONTRACK. I have a 300MB SCSI disk and I
was missing about 100K. The solution was to use less buffers. I had
BUFFERS=30. With the cluster size at 4K, this added up. When I reduced
buffers to 20, I got about 40K of memory back. I also asked them if it was
possible to install this driver in higher memory; at this time it is not
possible.

Eric M. Boehm
EMB978@ALBNY1VX.BITNET
EMB978@LEAH.ALBANY.EDU