Re: Miscellaneous Questions

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 00:00

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Alan Guest <alan@macropolis.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Steve Rogers <listbox@thebeast.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 1) Why does my Mac often take a look at whatever floppy disk is in the
> > drive when I do something which has nothing to do with the floppy?  Is
> > it something to do with Desktop files?
> 
> It always checks the drives when you go to the desktop.

I've got a D2 CD-ROM drive which uses a driver that caches the desktop
files from the currently mounted CD-ROM, so when the OS wants to read
the desktop files from all mounted discs, it doesn't have to spin up the
CD-ROM because the needed data is on HD waiting to be accessed at high
speed.

Rowland.

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