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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Vanloon Michael Lee)
Subject: Re: Caches
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In <1991Jun27.194934.28284@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> jpollard@silver.ucs.indiana.edu writes:

>Through laborous trial and error processes, I have tried to find a single 
>caching system that will work with both DESQ and WIN3 enh. PC-KWIK V2.1,
>Norton 5 F cache, Hyperdisk V4.11, and PC-CACHE V4.0 have all failed. 
>Smartdriv does work but is too slow and offers no write caching. I
>would like a single configuration that performs write caching and can
>dynamically give RAM back to the system if necessary. An added restriction
>is that I have SCSI (Future Domain controlled) and MFM drives in a single
>system. This rules out the shareware version of Hyperdisk since it
>currently does not properly interface with Future Domain SCSI controller.
>I will compile all of the suggestions (hopefully the solution) and post them
>to the net. Thanks in advance.

PC-CACHE version 6 (now vers. 7).


