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SMARTDRV without /U under DOS 6.22 ?

Is there some risk of NOT using the /U option in SMARTDRV for DOS 6.22 ?

I have some problem with MSCDEX (without the /E option)that seems
make SMARTDRV write bad DIR on my hard disk.

Is it possible that DOS4GW would make the think worst ?
Or placing SMARTDRV and/or MSCDEX in High Memory?

TimCaturaHouser

Running smartdrv.exe without the E will only slow down (maybe) your cd-rom access time. I say maybe, because if your doing something like loading a program from cd, well, you have little or nothing to cache.

I don't know DOS4GW. Is this a replacement shell to command.com, such as 4dos?

I have never had a problem loading high most programs, if I had enough memory in the shadow area to work with ( >640 & < 1024 )

Memmaker is not perfect, but real close to hrs. of hand tweaking for hours on end. Clean up any stray junk in config.sys and autoexec.bat then try memmaker. You can always try a little hand tweaking from there. I don't know why you would have been messing with the /E switch for smartdrv. Adjusting element movements could have done much worst than making a bad entry to your directory. Don't go there.

PhL

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The question was about the (bad) interraction between :
MSCDEX /E (with /E sorry for the error in the first question)
SMARTDRV (without /U)

So no relation with SMARTDRV /E

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