MS-DOS version (was: What's best to do?? classically speaking

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Jun 22 17:18:24 2001

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:

> 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.

I turned off write caching all together. Better safe than stupid.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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