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).
One of the big problems I remember with Smartdrive is that
people would shut the system down before all the cache had been
written to the disk. On any machine I set up, I always made it a
point to put:
Smartdrv /c
In a batch file called SHUT.BAT and I'd execute it to flush
the RAM prior to shutting down.
Jeff
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