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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: <3201@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 31 Oct 90 09:58:42 GMT
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hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:

>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...

It buffers both. Well, to be more correct: CACHEnnn itself buffers nothing
at all. It just extends the internal GEMDOS sector buffer list. So if
you find any erratic behavior concerning caching, blame it on GEMDOS.


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