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From: shankar@bedrock.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Which is better? Disk Caching with CDA or NDA?
Keywords: CDA, NDA, Cache, Accessory
Message-ID: <17728@srcsip.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 89 21:26:59 GMT
References: <296@tahoma.UUCP>
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Reply-To: shankar@bedrock.UUCP (Son of Knuth)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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In article <296@tahoma.UUCP> prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) writes:

>I own an Apple //gs.  I have an Applied Engineering GSRAM card which came
>with a Classic Disk Accessory(CDA) 3.5" Disk Cache. My recently purchased GSOS
>operating system disk came with a New Disk Accessory(NDA) 3.5" Disk Cache.
>
>Can anyone tell me which is better to use, (and why)?  

I would not use the AE cache at all with GS/OS unless they have a new version
for GS/OS.

I originally tried to use both caches, and then just the AE cache - in both
cases, the system tended to crash a lot, and the crashes were solved by not
using the AE cache.

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Subash Shankar             Honeywell Systems & Research Center
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