I keep having problems with Geos 2.0 and DoubleSpace/SuperStor/Stacker. What can I do?
Geos 2.0 normally works fine on compressed drives, although there is sometimes a decrease in performance if the swap file is on the compressed drive, particularly if you are using DoubleSpace (the compression included with MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.2.) Geos 1.x frequently had problems if the swap file was on a compressed drive, and users of these versions should make sure (through Preferences) that their swap file is on an uncompressed drive. Problems with Stacker not recognizing your compressed HD(s) correctly can usually be solved by adding lines to the [system]section of your GEOS.INIfile to specifically define the drives as fixed disks: drive c = 65536 where c is your compressed Stacker drive. End of the PC/GEOS FAQ Updated July 1, 2005 Copyright 199?-1999 James Bearden. All rights reserved. Copyright 1999-2005 Raymond Thaddeus C. Ancog. All rights reserved.
Geos 2.0 normally works fine on compressed drives, although there is sometimes a decrease in performance if the swap file is on the compressed drive, particularly if you are using DoubleSpace (the compression included with MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.2.) Geos 1.x frequently had problems if the swap file was on a compressed drive, and users of these versions should make sure (through Preferences) that their swap file is on an uncompressed drive. Problems with Stacker not recognizing your compressed HD(s) correctly can usually be solved by adding lines to the [system] section of your GEOS.INI file to specifically define the drives as fixed disks: drive c = 65536 where c is your compressed Stacker drive.
