Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!csuab From: csuab@warwick.ac.uk (Steve Strong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 /auto/ folder stuff Message-ID: <%PH&MF&@warwick.ac.uk> Date: 13 Mar 91 11:16:07 GMT References: <2851@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: clover > >I don't know what DCACHE does, but it is probably different from what >CACHEnnn does. CACHEnnn installs multiple cache buffers in GEMDOS. The >resulting speedup in original TOS and Mega TOS (1.2) is small, but in TOS >1.4 it's great. Try this: do a "show info" on a hard disk from the Desktop >once, then do it again on the same disk. If the second time didn't cause >any hard-disk accesses, then you're in business. If not, use CACHEnnn >(where nnn is three decimal digits, 080 is a good place to start). > Hi, I'm running TOS 1.6 and when in GEM it appears that the disk is cached automatically to some extent. For example, if I double click on drive A, shut the window and then double click again, the disk is not reaccessed. This is great, but doesn't seem to work with NeoDesk 3 - which I use all the time. I assumed this was NeoDesk doing something strange, so proceded to get disk cache programs and try using them. They certainly stopped the disk being reaccessed, but if I changed the disk, it didn't clear it's cache. Consequently, on the next disk write, it wrote the directory entries from the first disk onto the second - basically wrecking the whole disk :-( Is this a problem with NeoDesk, or am I doing something wrong? The cache programs I've tried are: acache, cache, dcache, chcache. If anyone can help, I would be most grateful - I HATE the disk reaccessing every time I come up a directory! Thanks Steve - csuab@uk.ac.warwick.cu