22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
7:06 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Cini, Richard wrote:
Really? I never had problems with Smartdrive on 286 and 386's. I remember
running a IBM-AT with something like 10 Megs of ram, and using about 6-8
Megs with smartdrive as a huge disk cache. Great way to make the system
run like a bat outta hell (well, hard drives were big and slow back then).
That was probably on a dos 3.3 system, maybe with windows 3.0
-Lawrence LeMay
DOS5 != DOS6 differences:
SmartDrive disk cache
Doesn't count. It was a seperate product that came with
Windoze 3.10 well
before 6.00 (and no choice whether to use it) Smartdrive caused MAJOR
problems, which the drive compression got blamed for. Had a few problems, but MOST of the problems that it
got blamed for were
actually the fault of SMARTDRV! It was a third party program (from
Vertisoft after the STAC deal fell through), but there were significant
mods to the OS itself to integrate it.
Hmm, of course we never used disk compression, so maybe thats why I saw
no problems and only major benefits to using Smartdrive.