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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Smooth Operator (for disks)
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Date: 9 Nov 89 19:24:33 GMT
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In article <81.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>Just a sanity check here: I don't THINK "AddBuffers" does this.  
I think AddBuffers adds buffers to the FILESYSTEM cache, not the hardware
driver cache. Thus, this would help if (say) two processes were doing
the "dir" command.

>Likewise, though ASDG's FACCII helps, it caches sectors, not tracks, and
>does not seem to keep sectors that were read because a different part of
>the track was needed.  

I noticed that -- that's why I never bought FACCII.  Of course, now I
have a hard drive so I never will.  It seems like it would be easy to add
a "from here to end of track/cylinder" cache to FACCII just by translating
such a request into a sequence of requests.       -- Darren