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- From: charon@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Spaz)
- Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.015135.22043@mercury.cair.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver
- References: <1992Dec28.191431.17660@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1hntciINNn9l@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 01:51:35 GMT
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- In article <1hntciINNn9l@transfer.stratus.com> rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Richard Scott) writes:
- >I tried using SuperStor Pro on my 110Mb IDE C: drive and took the defaults so
- >that it compressed the whole thing, except for a small area with boot files
- >that could be accessed only with SuperStor utilities while SuperStor was in
- >operation (i.e., the SuperStor drive got swapped in as the C: drive). I found
- >that disk access was so slow without a cache, that I first tried Windows 3.1
- >SMARTDRV (which appears to disable itself for the stacked drive, and so was a
- >null op), then Norton Cache 6.01 (AddStor expressly warned against Norton Cache
- >6.0; but Symantec claimed that 6.01 was O.K.). The latter combination worked
- >O.K. for a while, but then I started getting cross-linked files and found
- >myself running the SuperStor repair utilities, CHKDSK, and Norton Backup
- >(restore) a lot. With insufficient disk space to back out of SuperStor, I
- >blitzed the whole C: disk and started restoring stuff from my pre-SuperStor
- >backup (NEVER try one of these things without a backup!). By not restoring a
- >lot of the seldom-used stuff on the backup, I gained 35 Meg (a cheap
- >alternative to compression!)! I'm tempted to try SuperStor again on a smaller
- >piece of the drive, but having been burned once...
-
- I would beware even on the second try. I spent a whole week trying
- to get SuperStor to run glitch free. NO LUCK...First I converted the fixed C:
- to SuperStor leaving 10meg for Windows swapfile and that didn't work. Then
- I created the mountable SuperStor disk.
- But of course Windows doesn't like it when it(windows) resides on the fixed
- disk and other applications (WPWIN, Non- win apps ect.) reside on the
- moutable SuperStor disk. No matter what combination I tried, or the sizes I
- still couldn't get SuperStor to meet my needs. And the Addstor tech support was lame to say the least.
-
- Don't set your hopes too high on a trouble free SuperStor disk.
-
- I'm through with disk compression. If I get THAT hard up for disk
- space I'll just upgrade or get another hard disk. More money,
- less hassle.
-
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- + I'm not CRAZY...My definition of reality just happens to differ from +
- + everyone else! charon@zephyr.cair.du.edu +
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