>After three years of running Arachne from drive E:, problems with drirve
E: were cumullating - it was really heavy usage: tons of e-mail, compiling
and backupoing Arrachne source code, etc.
This drive has crashed several times : and now not even NDD will solve the
problems, and unconditional formating hangs on this drive, etc. I use it
only for absoultely temporary and unimportant tasks now, and Arrachne jas
moved to C:, where I am running it without problems.
If you were runningg Archne for long time without using disk cache, your
hard drive may became little bit "tired by permanent overlaying, and now
it should be considered more or less unusable :-(
This is warning for everyone, who is not using Arachne with RAM disk or
disk cache !!!! It is recommended if you want to use your hard disk even
in future....
>
Michael,
Was your drive E: physically damaged, and are there bad sectors? Or was it a
matter of file allocation table or other data structure (boot sector, partition
table?) messed up?
Remember when I said, some time prior to Arachne 1.60, Arachne gives the hard
drive a hard drive?
I notice more disk activity, with Arachne 1.61 and 1.62 (1.64 not installed
yet), in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM than in DR-DOS 7.03. In DR-DOS 7.03 I use NWCACHE. In
MS-DOS 6.22 there is not enough low memory. I also notice downloading speed in
Arachne 1.61 or 1.62, or DOS Lynx386, is half as fast in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM as in
DR-DOS 7.03.
