[Trlog] config.sys and other issues

[Steve London]

My venerable 25 MHz 486 was trashed by lightning, just before the 
September Sprint, and I'm now using a 200 MHz Pentium (I always was a 
state-of-the-art person !).

Despite having smartdrv enabled, I'm having a problem with disk drive 
contention. The problem is most noticible in a Sprint S&P exchange - the 
way TR works, the QSO gets logged to disk as soon as I hit the Enter 
key, which also causes my exchange to be sent. However, the CW sending 
is being delayed by the write to the disk. It's as if the smartdrv isn't 
working.  Here's the config.sys:

FILES = 30
STACKS = 18,512
DEVICE = C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE = C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
DEVICEHIGH = C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE C+

The SMARTDRV does show up under mem/classify .

Yes, it's an old 5 Gb disk drive in the Pentium, but could it really be 
slower than the 300 Mb drive in my old 486 ?

Suggestions ?

73,
Steve, N2IC