dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (05/07/91)
In article <q26g4-m@rpi.edu>, sigma@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin) writes: > thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes: >>Also, anybody have some comments on the most reliable disk cache for use >>with DV? (NOT SMARTDRIVE PLEASE!!!!) > I've been running PC-Cache 6.0 underneath DV/386 without any problems. > I've had a few problems with PC-Cache on other setups, so I'm a little > worried. Does anyone else have any experience with this or other caches? I use Hyperdrive (shareware, available from simtel20) with no problems. I chose this on the universal recommendation of people on the DESQview conference on a local BBS (actually it's a bbs network, but...) One warning which is obvious in retrospect: do _not_ run OPTIMIZE when you have staged writes on. -dh
sigma@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin) (05/07/91)
dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes: >I use Hyperdrive (shareware, available from simtel20) with no >problems. I chose this on the universal recommendation of people >on the DESQview conference on a local BBS (actually it's a bbs >network, but...) I read some of the HyperDisk documentation; it made me nervous. Does anyone have this running smoothly in EMS on a 386 with QEMM and a large IDE drive? It's the IDE part which worries me a bit. I don't usually get nervous easily, but the part about "don't install without a full backup no matter how standard your system is" worried me. I don't presently have the resources for a full backup. -- Kevin Martin sigma@ipl.rpi.edu "Can I kiss one of the bridesmaids instead?"
covar@oakhill.sps.mot.com (David Covar) (05/09/91)
>I don't usually get nervous easily, but the part about "don't install >without a full backup no matter how standard your system is" worried me. > I don't presently have the resources for a full backup. Well... if you check ANY cache-ing programs <hardware OR software>, they will have that exact same disclaimer. Besides, if they didn't say that, and you installed it improperly <which, btw, is quite hard to do, with HyperDisk's installation procedures>, then they would have some quite angry stupid customers, instead of just plain angry customers. At any rate, I think just about anybody can buy a pack or two of floppies. Especially if you have valuable data...