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From: chau@caen.engin.umich.edu (Hin Fai Chau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Simple Cache Question
Keywords: cache, fastopen, smartdrv, hyperdisk
Message-ID: <RL0+Y0.@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 14:39:58 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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This has long been a question in my mind.  Can anyone please
tell me whether I still need to install FASTOPEN and SMARTDRV
or other disk cache programs such as HYPERDISK if I have
already had a 32 K cache buffer in my disk controller card
and another 64 K in my 386 processor?
Does a software disk cache program actually create extra
overheading if I have already got a hardware one?

Thanks in advance.

Hin-Fai Chau
chau@caen.engin.umich.edu