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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Disk cache and DESQview (was Re: Telix 3.15 w/ DV 2.6, Qemm5.12)
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Date: 6 May 91 23:54:44 GMT
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In article <q26g4-m@rpi.edu>, sigma@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin) writes:
> thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes:
>>Also, anybody have some comments on the most reliable disk cache for use
>>with DV? (NOT SMARTDRIVE PLEASE!!!!) 
 
> I've been running PC-Cache 6.0 underneath DV/386 without any problems.
> I've had a few problems with PC-Cache on other setups, so I'm a little
> worried.  Does anyone else have any experience with this or other caches?

I use Hyperdrive (shareware, available from simtel20) with no
problems. I chose this on the universal recommendation of people
on the DESQview conference on a local BBS (actually it's a bbs
network, but...)

One warning which is obvious in retrospect: do _not_ run OPTIMIZE
when you have staged writes on.

-dh