Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes re: Disk compression trivia
>
>The biggest problem with 6.0 (and all after) is that ScanDisk is included.
>this has trashed several good working floppys for me, and even taken a
>piece of my hardrive (w95 starts it every time that I have to close Win
>with Crtl-Alt-Del or the power button)
>Others might have diffrent things to complain about (or think that ScanDisk
>is great) but I certainly don't think so.
Heh! Flashback to one of the first Win95 OSR2 systems I ever worked on.
That damn machine would *never* shut down, no matter how long you waited
at the "Please wait while...." screen. Plug-and-Pray had automatically
installed the wrong IDE driver, but I didn't know that at the time.
I also didn't know the AutoScan=0 trick, and as the computer had thousands
upon thousand of files, it always took ten minutes to boot up. I put up
with this nonsense through about five or six reboots, then decided I'd had
enough.
Renamed SCANDISK.EXE to something else. Fired up DEBUG. Created a one-
byte program (a single RET opcode) and named it SCANDISK.EXE. Bootup was
a lot faster from then on. End user was *amazed* at how quickly the new
ScanDisk did its job.... :-)
>Perhaps what you state about sartdrive is the reason I've never used it? I
>heard that it wasn't good and i had never heard of it, so I removed it from
>my autoexec.bat and it has never found it's way back unless I test it for
>some reason (namely Arachne speed comparsions)
I use ScanDisk when I'm using MS/PC DOS. The newer versions do make a
noticeable improvement. But I never, ever install it as a write-back
cache. The slight performance boost is not worth the risks to me.
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