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

From: Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com>
Date: Fri Jun 22 19:53:17 2001

Sellam Ismail wrote:

> 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.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

False! W Bush is president. :)

Eric

>
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