Hi Folks,
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.
On Tue, 07 May 2002 07:37:55 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> 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.
I used to have SmartDrive set to cache writes, also according to
some advice I got here on the Arachne list.
Then it bit me ! I lost a heap of very important data files
related to my business when the system crashed while I had heaps of
stuff in memory (whole directories). It took me ages to find and
unerase most of it, but some was lost forever - including the
directories themselves.
I was using FastFlip task swapper, with my word processor switched
out to memory. :(
I lost the whole directory it was logged into, and never got it back.
After that, I disabled caching writes. I will never enable it again.
Do what you have to, but I am very happy to wait those fractions of a
second that disk writes take, knowing that I have reduced the risk of
losing data again.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
http://tadpole.aus.as
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