CompuServe Messages

Bob, are you sure you don't mean Hyperdisk? Hyperdisk is a product from our previous developer Roger Cross. Hyperdisk is what FAST! was in 1989-1990. We dumped the product for new development in FAST!. The reason I don't like Smartdrv.exe or Smartdrv.sys is that you won't get FAT table caching with that product. The easiest way to test this is to load an exe file, then load it again. You should see the disk light both times with Smartdrv. With a good cache like FAST!, PCKWIK, others, you won't see the light the second time. It may seem simplistic and not all that important, but when using products like Stacker or Speedway, your disk cache really becomes an integral part of performance. The faster the disk cache, the better Speedway will perform (if you are caching to hard disk). Obviously, if you're caching to RAMdisk, the hard disk cache won't make a difference. However, let me recommend a shareware product called Nifty James which supports XMS 32 bit RAMdrives. It also extends out to 32 Meg. of RAM support for those with large file needs. Reese.