Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS Continuously Accesses Hard Disk

• Microsoft Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS, version 3.11

SYMPTOMS

When you share a network printer (NET SHARE PRINTER=LPTx) from a Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS machine and you change to a large directory (more than 50 files), your hard disk continuously spins. This continuous access slows down other commands (such as DIR), making your computer work slower.

CAUSE

Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS uses conventional memory to spool print jobs in order to be backwards compatible. This spooler requires buffers or a drive cache to do to operate optimally.

RESOLUTION

To stop the spooler from continuously accessing the hard disk in large directories, do the following:

• Open the AUTOEXEC.BAT file in a text editor (such as Windows Notepad) and set SMARTDRV.EXE as the first statement.


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• Open the CONFIG.SYS file in a text editor (such as Windows Notepad) and set BUFFERS to a value greater than 30.

Additional query words: 3.11 slow wgao

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Version : MS-DOS:3.11
Platform : MS-DOS
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