On Sat, 11 May 2002 11:32:04 -0700, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Tue, 07 May 2002 07:37:55 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> On Mon, 06 May 2002 19:32:52 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: >>> AHAH !!! You must have Smartdrive set to cache writes ! >>> I would never do that again since it has already bitten me twice or so. >>> I only cache reads so it takes 1 min 5 or so sec on HD even with cache. >> Mine is 33Mhz. And I do have Smartdrive set to cache writes. I set it >> up that way according to advice I got from this list five years ago. >> It's quite possible that I even got that advice from you! It was either >> you or John Tomany or maybe Bob Buckland. >> I haven't had any sort of problem with this setup as far as I can >> tell. > Michael was an advocate of write caching and I believe Richard still is. > As explained, I have had at least two serious cases of crosslinked files > associated with smartdrv and write caching. This normally occurs when the > application software you are using crashes - like Arachne used to - and > would probably never be seen otherwise. > Crosslinked files is the worst thing that can happen to a hard disk - much > worse than deleting all files in a directory - and my messing around still > frequently results in crashes here. <g> AHAH !!!.... *There's* the problem. You're using that piece of crap called STUPIDdrv. :((( You need a *REAL* diskcache program. http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm (grab nwcache.zip) Here are my current stats after 3 `forced' crashes. To `force' a crash. Just go to AQC and view all messages. It'll crash for sure.<g> NWCache R1.02 Disk Cache Copyright (C) 1993, 1996 Caldera, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 1985, 1990, 1992, Golden Bow Systems. Cache size: 4080 KB (XMS) Minimum cache size: 1024 KB Buffered write drives: A B Delayed write drives: C D E F G H I J K Current options: /MU Program is loaded into upper memory /BU=16 Lookahead buffer is located in upper memory, size is in KB /LEND=ON Lend memory to other applications - 3056 KB available /DELAY=5000 Write delay is enabled, time is in milliseconds /FLUSH=ON Flush delayed writes before returning the prompt Disk Usage Statistics: Error Statistics: Command Requests #Done Saved 0 Memory Manager Errors Reads: 53980 7992 85% 0 Disk Transfer Errors Writes: 47603 10828 77% 0 Errors Ignored by User Volume MCCORKLE_01 created Jul-16-2001 22:31 279,470,080 bytes total disk space. 90,112 bytes in 5 hidden files. 1,327,104 bytes in 161 directories. 127,107,072 bytes in 4212 user files. 8,192 bytes in bad clusters. 150,937,600 bytes available on disk. 8,192 bytes in allocation unit. 34,115 total allocation units on disk. 18,425 available allocation units on disk. 655,360 total bytes of memory. 643,520 total bytes of free memory. 643,040 bytes in largest free memory block. (that bad cluster is #0 and was caused by a failed attempt last year to install Win98) :(( ________ As to speedchk. 486DX-2 66mhz OpenDos 7.01 RamDisk 11 and 11 HDD (nwcache) 18 and 19 DR-Dos 6.0 RamDisk 19 and 19 PC-Dos 3.3? RamDisk 6 and 6 IMO, Stick with 3.3? on these older machines. :)) BTW, P-150 OpenDos 7.01 RamDisk 3 and 3 HDD (nwcache) 6 and 7 -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
