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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Cache
Keywords: Cache
Message-ID: <1242@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 21 Sep 90 10:14:07 GMT
References: <02520.AA02520@lemsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <02520.AA02520@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) writes:
>        How is this possible???  Are you referring to PATCHING FaccII to
>work with HDs?  As far as I know, FaccII was never designed to work with
>HDs (let alone FFS in general, although it performs just fine on FFS
>floppies).

You can patch FaccII to use a device different from trackdisk.device,
you have to change the name of the FaccII.port too if you want to
use FaccII for disks AND for a hardrive.

Nevertheless, unless you want to read a short file that can be hold
in the cache several times, you'll get a severe slowdown. The FaccII
program might be faster than floppies but it is definitely slower
than a harddrive. And it doesn't help against disk thrashing (write-through
cache).

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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