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From: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: HD caching with Sparta
Message-ID: <4469@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 23 Sep 89 00:10:08 GMT
References: <519@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan)
Organization: Galadrim (really a disorganization)
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In article <519@mindlink.UUCP> a344@mindlink.UUCP (Tom Klok) writes:
=>
=>So, my question to all you Atarians is this:  does anybody have a program to
=>use the extended 64k of the XE to supply caching for the hard drive?  I figure
=>if the bitmap, directory and sector link sectors were kept in ram, and Sparta's
=>read calls were intercepted so the sectors were supplied from ram instead of
=>going to the disk, the speed could be increased by a huge amount, perhaps
=>almost as fast as a ramdisk.  Write operations would be done through the cash
=>to the disk immediately; I think delayed writes is asking too much of the
=>existing software.
=>
   One of the earlier versions of SpartaDOS X included cache support, but it
was removed from the later versions because it only increased the speed in a
limited number of cases.
					Gary Duzan
					Time  Lord
				    Third Regeneration
				 Atari Enthusiast Extreme




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