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- From: vchapman@victor02.carleton.ca (Vic Chapman)
- Subject: Re: Solved: Slow SCSI disk with Win 3.1 in Enh. mode
- Message-ID: <vchapman.725688342@cunews>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <01GSWMOGQSHE00165L@NET.WAU.NL>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:05:42 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In <01GSWMOGQSHE00165L@NET.WAU.NL> Gert.Klein@BURO.IEND.WAU.NL writes:
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- >Hello,
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- >Two weeks ago I posted a question about the performance of SCSI disks
- >under Windows 3.1 running in enhanced mode. There has been an
- >interesting discussion on the list regarding different aspects of this
- >problem (double buffering, SMARTDRV etc.) My problem however has been
- >solved in the meantime. Bernstein_Phil@LANMAIL.NCSC.NAVY.MIL gave me
- >the correct solution. In his mail from 17-dec-1992 he writes:
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- >> You need the Adaptec SCSI driver ASPI4DOS. I think the software that
- >> includes this driver is ASW1410.
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- Is this software available through Compuserve or another anonymous ftp
- site? I wasn't aware that I could speed up my SCSI disk!
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- >This proved to be absolutely correct. I obtained this software and I loaded
- >de ASPI4DOS.SYS driver in my CONFIG.SYS. Norton's SYSINFO now gives an
- >average throughput of 1500 Kb/sec, thats 50% higher than without the
- >driver! Performance under Windows is just slightly lower. The driver
- >also seems to handle the double buffering. Running SMARTDRV now shows
- >a 'No' for my C: drive in the 'Buffering' column, so I removed the
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- >DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV /DOUBLE_BUFFER
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- >line from my CONFIG.SYS. Everything runs fine until now.
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- >I thought this was interesting enough to post to the list.
- >Thanks for any help.
-
- >Gert Klein
- >Systemmanager
- >Agricultural University of Wageningen
- >The Netherlands
- >mail: klein@rcl.wau.nl
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