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From: a523@mindlink.UUCP (Frank Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for a good disk cacher
Message-ID: <1469@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 90 11:11:02 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> scholes@snoopy.Colorado.EDU writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <19649@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
> Posted: 13 Apr 90 04:13:01 GMT
> 
> Org.  : University of Colorado, Boulder
> Person: SCHOLES MARTIN LEE
> 
> 
>   I apologize if this question has appeared before, but...  I'm searching for
> a good disk cacher (or at least one that works on my 386).  I've tried many,
> discache, cache2, qcache, lightning, smartdrv, etc, etc.  Some choke because
> I run QEMM, some choke because they don't like my Mscribe 3085 (>1024 cyls),
> and some just choke for no apparent reason.  Smartdrv was way at the top of
> my list of caching greats, but it doesn't deal to well with the 3085. Does
> anyone know of a cacher that doesn't suffer from the above ailments, is fast,
> and can use LIM or ext memory (I don't care which)?  Any help in steering me
> in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
>                                    Thanx in advance,
>                                        scholes@snoopy.colorado.edu


I have been using PC-Cache (Part of PC-Tools Version 5.5) on my 386.   I am
also using QEMM (I have 5 megs of RAM).  I believe that PC-Cache is a reduced
version of another product called KWIK-CACHE. <----I could be wrong with the
name.  This seems to work well on my system.

Frank Murray
@MindLink#523