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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Quien es mas macho? (HD caching)
Message-ID: <3198@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 29 Oct 90 14:37:56 GMT
References: <1990Oct27.162723.2834@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:

>Now, how should I set up caching for the best effect under TOS 1.4?
>I have turned off write caching in the ICDBOOT driver (it scares
>the dung out of me), but I have to choose among using only
>Atari's CACHEnnn.PRG (which is _very_ fast), ICDBOOT's built-in
>read caching, or some combination of the two. Any suggestions? Is
>CACHEnnn.PRG safe to use with ICDBOOT, or does it need AHDI?

You can combine all those caching mechanisms without danger for your
data. CACHEnnn is no separate cache program; it just extends
GEMDOS' internal sector buffer list. This won't collide with any
external caching by hard disk drivers etc. (if properly done, of
course).

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