On 23 Feb 00 at 18:43, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>Thanks, Mark, but I already know about Mark and Release, and I do use
>>these programs frequently. BTW, there was quite a discussion on this
>>list a couple of years ago about these programs. I've just learned
>>that NWCACHE may be unloaded with the "/u" switch provided it was the last
>>program loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT. I've changed the loading sequence in my
>>AUTOEXEC.BAT so as to accomodate for the problems I have in using PC-PINE
>>with NWCACHE. I didn't know it was possible to load NWCACHE high, and I
>>never would have thought of trying it until now that you've mentioned it.
>>OK, I'll try it. I'll get back to later with my report.
We had quite a discussion about disk caching here in '99 or '98. I
tried NWCACHE myself and I found that the default delay when delayed
writes are enabled is 5 seconds (IIRC). My caching software warns
against any thing greater than 1 second (default is .5 seconds). This
might explain why crashes sometimes cause the FAT's to not be in
agreement since the cache has probably not finished writing to the
drive. It might be safer to change the write delay to something
similar to what mine uses as default.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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