On Sun, 12 May 2002 19:40:55 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2002 14:42:35 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> 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 don't have anything on the Arachne machine that I couldn't live > without, so it's not a problem. If I had stuff I really didn't want > to lose I would get religion about backups. I don't care HOW slow the computer I'm using is, or what cache software I use - I'll gladly wait the extra seconds (or minutes/day) to avoid the stress of a trashed HD due to write caching again. I'll also make a religion of warning the unbelievers. ;-) - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
