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From: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston Bannister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A decent disk cache...
Message-ID: <22179@felix.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 05:18:11 GMT
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From article <9232@prls.UUCP>, by gert@prls.UUCP (Gert Slavenburg):
>>  ... 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) ?

It's write through.  Writing _might_ be a shade faster (see following).
 
>   2) Does it solve the TEDIOUSLY SLOW writing problem on not too empty
>      partitions ?

Nope.  It might help a little due to the FAT and directory tending to
be cached, but the bulk of the slowness is in GEMDOS's FAT searching
routine.  
 
>   3) Does it solve the 40 folder bug ?  AND/OR

Nope.  

>   4) Does it work correctly with FOLDRxxx.PRG ?

Can't imagine why it wouldn't.  I use GEMBOOT, which is similar to FOLDRxxx.

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