Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!egisin
From: egisin@mks.UUCP (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: need disk cache for DOS 4
Message-ID: <655@mks.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 20:05:19 GMT
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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I read the review of disk caches in PC magazine,
but it did not mention if they tested them under DOS 4.0.

I'm looking for a cache that will:
1. run under PC DOS 4 (and work with large partitions),
2. use extended memory,
3. co-exist with vdisk in extended memory.
Since the way vdisk allocates extended memory changed
between DOS 3.3 and DOS 4, I suspect some caches
will no longer run under DOS 4.
Can anyone recommend a cache that they have used
with the above configuration?

I have a few caches already, but none are satifactory.

PC magazine's dcache will not run in extended memory.
If you are looking for it, you can FTP it from simtel20.arpa
(under pd1:<msdos.dskutl>).

The MS SmartDrive I have will not run under DOS 4.

DisCache, which I am using, has a few problems.
I can't use it with vdisk, it doesn't save writes
in the cache, and I think it is crashing my machine.