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Subject: [TRLog] minimum need
From: k6ll@juno.com (Dave Hachadorian)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:34:40 -0700


On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:17:58 -0500 "John Schaffner Jr. - K8LN"
<k8ln@neo.rr.com> writes:

> I did notice that the 
> writing to
> the log was slow, something that has never happen before. The old 
> 386 / 25
> just could not keep up. There was a 2 to 3 second delay in 
> transfering the
> call sign and report to the log.

In autoexec.bat, put the following statement:

LOADHIGH SMARTDRV C+

This enables hard disk write-caching, which allows the computer
to execute instructions, while the data to be written to disk
is temporarily held in RAM. It will solve your problem.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ
K6LL@juno.com

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