----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Pryor" <jpryor@ARCHES.UGA.EDU>
To: <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:25 PM
Subject: [TRLog] Pause
> My contest computer's hard drive bit the dust
recently so I used the
> "household" PC in the Jubilee contest and
discovered a minor glitch with
> the second PC. In S&P mode, when I enter a
callsign and hit ENTER to drop
> my call, there is a delay of a fraction of a
second, which at times meant I
> was beaten by another station whose callsign was
heard first by the run
> station. There was no such delay when I used
the older, supposedly slower
> contest computer.
>
> The computer is a 750 MHz WIN98 booted to DOS
(not a DOS window). TRLog
> version is something-or-other "A." I think it's
the latest.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas that I might try to
send my call immediately
> when I hit ENTER?
Typically, pauses are caused by failure
to run a disk cache. Disk operations
take priority over external I/O,
causing I/O pauses.
This is usually not a problem if you run
TR under Windows.
If you are running under DOS, add the following
line to logcfg.dat to enable write-caching on the
C drive.
loadhigh smartdrv C+
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
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