Bernie,
Now that I'm back from my extended vacation in Washington DC area, I'm
catching up on mail. [Can you say 2,000??]
Read what you wanted me to try on smartdrv and figured why not. So
first I cleaned up the drive -- most files associated with mail or
smtp.log with funny stuff catted to the ends of messages. 37 chains, 37
files deleted.
Then I went to config.sys to make the actual change. Discovered I don't
*have* to do that.
I can now say, with the ultimate level of assurance, that Smartdrv.Exe
is *NOT* the cause of lost chains. How can I be so certain? Well, it
seems I'd modified my config.sys back on April 23rd, said modification
consisting of the command REM being placed in front of the device line
for smartdrv. Yup ... I've been running Arachne 1.61 & now 1.64
*without* any diskcaching, but the lost chains are still there.
Just to make you happy, and to speed up things on this end [maybe], I'll
go into config.sys and unREM the smartdrv line, adding the double-buffer
command. Betcha I still get lost chains. <G>
l.d.
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:59:29 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> device=c:\dos\smartdrv.exe/DOUBLE_BUFFER
<snip>
> But since noone can make the same problem happen (I'm not going to buy a
> SCSI HD just to try <G>) the problem isn't Arachnes but with running
> Arachne on your setup. Please just try and add smartdrv.exe to config.sys
> and tell us what happens.
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