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From: Damien P. Neil
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 23:53

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In article <Bx9ME2.H40@voder.nsc.com> pad@galaxy.nsc.com (Paul Denny x8349) writes:
>As a starter I note that caching disc controllers
>are supposed to increase the speed of disc intensive
>applications but a salesman I spoke to 8^) claimed
>that these are flakey designs as a single bad bit
>can propogate through your data and corrupt it. He
>suggested additional system RAM and partition it
>in DOS to have a large cache area. Can anyone verify
>or debunk this and provide an explanation?

I do not have the good fortune to own a caching disk controller, but I have 
heard only good things about them. Perhaps the RAM would cost more than the 
controller, giving the salesman more profits? :-)
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