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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Quien es mas macho? (HD caching)
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Date: 30 Oct 90 22:08:31 GMT
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In article <13510003@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
>david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) asks:
>like the fact that I can pick which drives will be cached. ICD's and Atari's
>caches will cache everything - including a RAM disk, which is pointless.

Hm. With sufficient memory and a good cache, isn't the whole idea of a
RAMdisk pointless?

I'm hearing conflicting info on Atari's CACHENNN.PRG. Does it only cache
FAT and directory info, or also data sectors? The behavior appears a little
erratic to me, showing disk hits when I wouldn't expect any to occur...
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