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From: scholes@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Caches - PC-Tools & Super PC-Kwik
Message-ID: <21759@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 1 Jun 90 04:56:45 GMT
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  I posted a couple of months ago looking for a cacher that could deal with
me having a 386 running QEMM, and my MScribe 3085 (>1024 cyls).  I recieved
few responses, and I had tried at least 2 dozen cachers (and rebuilt my
scrambled drive after each test).  Finally I was told to try FLASH! from
software masters.  I payed the stiff $75 price, with the assurance that
ANY incompatibility problems would be resolved.  The result?  This little
piece of software moves.  After I writhed my way through the barrage of
copy protection, I had a very fast, very small (8k of conventional memory),
and very solid cache.  Every single cacher I tried prior to this either:
ran slower than no cache, locked up for no reason, locked up when trying to
write the inner >1024 cyls of my drive, refused to write the inner cyls of
my drive (chkdsk loved this), or wrote the inner cyls VERY slowly.  With
the exception of the lame copy protection, this is the best cacher I've
ever used.  Anyone looking for one should at least call this company at
(317)253-8088.                  scholes@snoopy.colorado.edu