Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!opal!tmpmbx!unlisys!image!mist!woju From: woju@mist.UUCP (Wolfgang Jung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Quien es mas macho? (HD caching) Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 18:01:00 GMT References: <1990Oct30.220831.17172@math.lsa.umich.edu> <1990Oct27.162723.2834@doe.utoronto.ca> <13510003@hplsla.HP.COM> Reply-To: woju@mist.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: The Mystic System in Berlin 26 Lines: 29 X-Version: Martin's Mailer Version Sep 07 1990 23:50:52 In <1990Oct30.220831.17172@math.lsa.umich.edu>, Howard Chu writes: }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... It should does both ! But i don't know if the CACHEXXX.prg will work with the BGM Partitions, which will be created for Partitions >32 MB So be careful! By -- Bye,... Don't trust your eyes. It's just an imagination of your brain ! woju@mist.UUCP(only subnet), woju@image.in-berlin.de woju@neon.in-berlin.de (c) by Wolfgang Jung, Berlin (date look at header !!)