At 01:12 PM 12/4/00 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
>I know that Dave is a fan of this particular configuration; but I would
>caution you that, if you follow his advice, you do so at your own risk. I
>have personal knowledge of someone who turned on write-behind cacheing
>under DOS and rendered their drive a meaningless jumble of bytes.
>
>OTOH, I am sure that there are dozens of people on this reflector who, like
>Dave, use this command and have never had any problem with it.
For a really evil combination, try write-behind caching and
Doublespace/Drivespace, which makes the entire drive into, essentially, one
big file. Then add a power failure...
73, Pete N4ZR
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