First and foremost, no one seems to have noticed what I said -- and have
said over and over and over: The only ONLY *O*N*L*Y* drive where I find
lost chains [two physical HDDs, logical drives C: through U:] is the
logical drive where Arachne resides.
When I'm in the setup for Arachne [which forces me to the hybrid DOS
usage to keep the NIC happy], I don't reboot just to do other things. I
play games, I use my WordStar, I send FAXes and have recieved a couple
of FAXes, use Win3.1, manage files, do maintenance, etc. Yet the only
drive that has lost chains is the drive where Arachne resides.
I can't RTFM on smartdrive, because the last DOS manual I have is for
3.something. But I don't think I should worry, since the only time and
place I have trouble is after using Arachne, and only on the drive where
Arachne resides.
It seems no one else can duplicate what happens on my system, but it
also seems that no one else uses the same setup I use on my system.
That factor just never seems to be taken into consideration, and thus
everyone keeps saying it is somehow my fault, that I have something set
up incorrectly, that I should do this or that or the other thing.
But I will say again, and maybe -- just MAYBE -- someone will pay
attention this time:
I have had lost chains with Arachne since the get-go.
I had lost chains with Arachne [with and without crashes]
when I ran it primarily in RAM drive.
I had lost chains with Arachne when I ran it on HDD and had
no disk caching in place.
I had lost chains with Arachne when I ran Ncache, and with that
I *did* do a VERY thorough RTFM.
I still have lost chains with Arachne.
Every lost chain I've found in the last two years has been on the
drive where Arachne resides [or was partially installed] and has
been directly traceable back to Arachne.
IMNSHO, the fault is with Arachne. It is not a problem I had running
Telix for years. It is not a problem I had running NetTamer for 3
years, including many beta versions. It is a problem that deserves
proper consideration when it can amount to Megabytes of potential
pollutants [thousands of chains, over 600 files one time, 1.7Mb total].
l.d.
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