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From: jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v11i031: qc42, disk caching program
Keywords: qc42 disk cache caching
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.200136.16440@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 91 20:01:36 GMT
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I have a question regarding this product:  What happens if a crash occurs on
the PC before the cache has been saved to disk?  I assume that it's gone.
IMHO, this is a major drawback of software caching products.  I'd feel a
bit better about hardware (controller) caching, since the cache can be
retained by an on-board battery, and if the controller is smart enough,
it will write the cache to disk before rebooting the system.

Jon
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