icsrb@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Ray Babcock) (01/20/90)
I have a Zenith 386/25 with 3 Mb of memory, 70 Mb ESDI disk and 2 floppies. SETUP is 640Kb base, 2432Kb extended, 0Kb expanded. I have installed Microsoft Windows/386. If I install SMARTDrive.sys in CONFIG.SYS, re-boot, and do a memory.exe (from PageMaker package) I get 526K available base memory. If I remove the SMARTDrive.sys command from config.sys, re-boot, and check memory, I show 584K available base memory. I am trying to run Aldus Pagemaker, and I show a substantial reduction in performance when I install! SMARTDrive due to the reduction in base memory available. Question: Does anyone know why SMARTDrive is eating into my base memory? I have tried EMM.sys and putting a /a option on the SMARTDrive command line, but I still get the base memory reduction. According to the manuals, SMARTDrive should take its memory from extended memory. I have read all the READ.ME files mentioned in all the guides. ALSO, when I examine the "ABOUT MS-DOS" entry in the Windows/386 MS-DOS window, it makes no mention of SMARTDrive being there. Norton Utilities SI reports a significant improvement in disk I/O factor when using SMARTDrive but Pagemaker gets much slower! Anyone who can give me some help can email me a response and I will summarize anything useful to the net. Or maybe, I should just wait until version 3.0 of windows386 comes out. Ray S. Babcock, adjunct assistant professor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 (406) 994-4780 email: icsrb@caesar.cs.montana.edu