Re: Disk cache software

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <817649013snz@musicman.demon.co.uk>
           scott@musicman.demon.co.uk "Scott Mordecai" writes:

>I use Smartdrive (with dos 6.2 and win 3.1) to speed things up a bit, even
>though I have a Cyrix M1, PCI EIDE, etc.  which I thought would be fast
>enough to cope without smartdrv... anyway...
>
>I have just bought Rugby World Cup 1995.  All works fine, except if I have
>smartdrice loaded.  Even if I disable cacheing on C: the game still
>crashes.  Since I only really have a need for smartdrv when using Windows,
>is it possible to easily load/unload smartdrv when windows is run, or is
>there a 'Windows only' equivalent of smartdrv?

As far as I recall, windows has a cache called vcache which cashed HDs
but not CDs.

You can disable smartdrv once it is running. This is a handy trick for
KA9Q users to put in their demon.bat files.

-- 
John Beardmore

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