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- #: 30883 S8/Group Projects
- 17-Jul-85 02:10:40
- Sb: #30770-CACHE.LBR
- Fm: Vern Buerg (HamNet) 70007,1212
- To: Jim Butler 74766,1460 (X)
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- It's a cache program for diskette drives. Supposed to keep up to 64-k of the
- most recently referenced sectors in a buffer so that fewer physical I/O need
- be done. It's from an article in PC Mag. Since it ate three floppies, and
- because they don't want it distributed via BBS, my copy of CACHE.LBR has gone
- to the great bit bucket in the sky. Too bad.
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- #: 31041 S0/General Interest
- 18-Jul-85 20:58:02
- Sb: #CACHE
- Fm: Bill Soon 70655,242
- To: Vern Buerg 70007,1212 (X)
-
- Saw your msg 30883 here regarding CACHE.LBR, in which you stated that it had
- eaten 3 floppies. Under what circumstances did this happen? I have a friend
- who laboriously typed the program in by hand from PC Magazine, and he got real
- concerned when I mentioned that I had seen your message on this SIG. I told
- him I would try to get some more info... Any details you can give would be
- most appreciated. -- Bill
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- #: 31051 S0/General Interest
- 18-Jul-85 22:27:08
- Sb: #31041-CACHE
- Fm: Vern Buerg (HamNet) 70007,1212
- To: Bill Soon 70655,242
-
- All I can tell you is that I downloaded the ASM source (sorry about that) and
- the COM. I tested it a couple of times and found that it did indeed improve
- diskette I/O. Unfortunately for me, I failed to reboot after a testing session
- and found out a few hours later that every floppy that I had written to was
- munged. The directories had invalid entries (mixed up from another drive), and
- the FATs were bad. Lotsa cross-linked files, etc. Apparently the write-bypass
- doesn't always work. Let someone else fix it, I've DELeted my copies of CACHE.
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