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From: gert@prls.UUCP (Gert Slavenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A decent disk cache...
Summary: info on 'Accelerator' requested
Keywords: Beckemeyers Hard Disk Accelerator
Message-ID: <9232@prls.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 21:42:17 GMT
References: <8802151756.AA02796@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <3293@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: gert@prls.UUCP (Gert Slavenburg)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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>  ... but Beckemeyers hard disk accelerator seems to do a good job too ...

Can anybody that uses the hard disk accelerator (or the author) give us some
more information on what it does, especially :

  1) Does it speed up reading solely (i.e. is it a 'write through' cache) ?

  2) Does it solve the TEDIOUSLY SLOW writing problem on not too empty
     partitions ?

  3) Does it solve the 40 folder bug ?  AND/OR

  4) Does it work correctly with FOLDRxxx.PRG ?

  5) (if the answer to 1 is NO) Does my hard disk file structure survive a
     power outage occurring between writes (but with a non flushed cache).

Thanks in advance,

  - a prospective customer -