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Re: HD cache for the MegaSTe

#1714
From: Mickey Boyd
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:06
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In article <3354@equinox.unr.edu>, chan@pyramid.unr.edu (Kaho Chan) writes:
>Hello out there...
>
>Are there any suggestions for a HD cache for my MegaSTE either PD or commercial?
>
>I DID use Cold Hard Cache 3.5 this week but it caused a minor predicament for melast night.  As soon as I enabled it, my FAT tables started to deteriorate on 
>two of my partititions (drive F and G)... maybe I am wrong... but I am taking nochances...  After major surgury, I only lost 6 files (whew!)... (thanks, Brian
>T.)
>

I found Cold Hard Cache to be extremely reliable.  Perhaps it is something
in your auto folder/acc's that is screwing it up.  I would say without 
hesitation that CHC is the best cache program in the PD/Shareware realm 
(actually, I don't think it is in this realm any more; I believe a commercial
version comes with Diamond Back, and previous PD versions are null and void).

If you have an ICD host adaptor, you can use that software for caching.  If 
you ALREADY are, this might confuse CHC also!

My favorite thing about CHC was the stats (hit ratio, time saved, etc) you 
could get from the companion acc.  I was taking an OS class at the time, and 
it was neat to see what all the fuss was about (wow, that was many moons ago).

I now use my ICD software for caching, so no more stats :-(.

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From: boyd@phi.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
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Subject: Re: HD cache for the MegaSTe
Message-ID: <1992Apr12.112026.5143@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:06:08 GMT
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