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From: eehamid@cybaswan.UUCP (ia.hamid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: wd1006 and Norton SI
Message-ID: <1804@cybaswan.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 90 18:22:02 GMT
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In article <17100051@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs122bm@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 

Michael writes:

> 	Some of Western Digitals controllers, such as the WD1006V-MM2, have
> on-board caches. For some reason these caches confuse the heck out of the
> Norton SI and you wind up getting a slower rating than you should.

Thanks for the reply.

Since I posted the question, I have installed Windows386 on my machine and
configured the 2Mb both as extended and expanded mem. using emm386. I also
installed Smartdrv to use the expanded mem. as a disk cache and ran the same
Norton test. Guess what Michael? I got a new DI and PI. Is Norton affected
by hardware caches only? 

By the way, I could not run Win386 with the emm386 running. I got a
"Protected mode software already installed" error. Any suggestion here
will also come in handy.

Thanks alot.