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Richard · Guest

OK guys, this has to be the strangest situation ever! I have several
fast SCSI drives attached to one controller on this S2895 board. One
of these drives is partitioned into two with each being allocated to the
paging file for XP32 and XP64. When running on XP32 I have been
getting warnings that the paging file needs more space but the strange
thing is that it is saying that the space on the 64 paging file space is
used up.

To nail this down I then increased the paging file on the "C" drive from
20MB up to 3GB and totally removed the 32bit entry on the dedicated
paging file drive. This lack of space is happening whilst I am sorting
out my network connection to the Mac using Maclan so no great loading on
the computer.

Cheers

Richard
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Richard

Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Paging file up the creak!

Running out of paging space is fatal to any Windows System. It's like
running out of RAM and the result is unspecified. 20Mb was a
ridiculously low amount to have set up. I would suggest no less than
the total RAM on the system and double wouldn't be a bad idea. Sharing
the paging file may or may not work properly. I never count on it and
disk space isn't that precious any more. The state of the paging file
can be compromised. This too is undefined.

The issue has nothing to do with your using a SCSI drive unless the
drivers were bad and in that case you would have made a much bigger
mess already and it would be haplessly confused. You wouldn't even get
the OS loaded if it were a drive / interface issue.

I don't see that any of your problem is hardware related or Tyan
specific. You need some basic Window O/S setup help.

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:25:58 +0000, Richard <richard@spamfree.co.uk>
wrote:

ho72 · Forum Regular Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 11

Richard,

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Richard · Guest

In his posting of Thu, 29 Dec 2005, ho72 writes

ho72 · Forum Regular Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 11

Richard, I don't know how much power dual Optys need, although I would think a 600w PSU of good quality should do the job. Ask others with similar systems what they're using and go from there.