From: dcriswel@oracle.uucp (David Criswell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
Subject: Re: Drdos SStor & Oracle
Keywords: Drdos Oracle Pc dos sstor
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Date: 7 Jul 93 20:27:23 GMT
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In article <1993Jul6.221005.4009@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> puryear@dsps04.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>I am trying to install Oracle v6 on my pc.  I am running DRDOS 6.  
>Everything goes ok until I try to IOR  or create the Database.  I then
>get a 386:protection mode error.
>
>I bet, Oracle will not run on a Superstored (SSTOR) disk.  Can anyone
>tell me yes or no on the disk.  It seems like I remember that Oracle
>does direct writes to the disk.  If this is ture then (boom) no compressed
>disk software will work.   8-[

I suspect this will not work, since Oracle needs to be able to preallocate
disk space and once it does so, the OS needs to be able to guarantee the 
availability of this space. Disk compressors can't do this. I don't know
about SSTOR, Stacker is known not to work, and I've heard that DoubleDisk
doesn't work. I suspect this is true of all compression software. 

Dave Criswell
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