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Article #30674Re: A decent disk cache...
From: Preston Bannister
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1988 05:18
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1988 05:18
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From article <9232@prls.UUCP>, by gert@prls.UUCP (Gert Slavenburg): >> ... but Beckemeyers hard disk accelerator seems to do a good job too ... > > Can anybody that uses the hard disk accelerator (or the author) give us some > more information on what it does, especially : > > 1) Does it speed up reading solely (i.e. is it a 'write through' cache) ? It's write through. Writing _might_ be a shade faster (see following). > 2) Does it solve the TEDIOUSLY SLOW writing problem on not too empty > partitions ? Nope. It might help a little due to the FAT and directory tending to be cached, but the bulk of the slowness is in GEMDOS's FAT searching routine. > 3) Does it solve the 40 folder bug ? AND/OR Nope. > 4) Does it work correctly with FOLDRxxx.PRG ? Can't imagine why it wouldn't. I use GEMBOOT, which is similar to FOLDRxxx. -- Preston L. Bannister USENET : ucbvax!trwrb!felix!preston BIX : plb CompuServe : 71350,3505 GEnie : p.bannister
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!ames!oliveb!felix!preston From: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston Bannister) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: A decent disk cache... Message-ID: <22179@felix.UUCP> Date: 20 Feb 88 05:18:11 GMT References: <9232@prls.UUCP> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Lines: 31