Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: QEMM 5.0 & Hard Disk Solution
Message-ID: <4444@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 90 21:13:56 GMT
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In article <90269.100339JRKUHN@MTUS5.BITNET> JRKUHN@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
>
>Regarding lower data transfer rates with Quarterdeck's QEMM:
>
>     I encountered the same problem on a 386-25 with an RLL drive.
>Apparently, Qemm imposes enough of an overhead to the system that some
>disk controllers cannot keep up at their current interleave setting.

IHMO, the simplest and best overall solution for this, is to install
a track-buffering disk caching program, such as pc-cache, superpckwik,
hyperdisk, or others..

I have had no problems with 1:1 interleave using QEMM or QEMM+DESQVIEW,
but then I always have a track-buffering cache installed, as well.
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