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- WORM AND REWRITABLE DEVICE DRIVER CACHING MODES
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- With the combination of WORM and rewritable device drivers into
- one "UNI"-driver, Corel incorporated two caching modes: one for
- WORM drives and one for rewritable drives.
-
- The default caching mode for WORM drives writes data to cache
- buffers. When the cache buffers are full, the device driver flushes
- the data to the WORM cartridge. By default, if cache buffers aren't
- full and 1/5 of a second passes without any data being written to the
- buffers, the driver flushes the data to the cartridge. To specify the
- number of cache buffers allocated to a WORM drive, use the
- device driver switch /Cn, where "n" represents the number
- of cache buffers.
-
- Unlike WORM cartridges, rewritable cartridges don't
- provide a permanent record of information. Therefore, the
- default caching mode of rewritable drives is set to "write
- pass through". Data is written to the cache buffers and the
- cartridge at the same time to provide an additional level
- of security for data.
-
- If you want faster read and writes for your rewritable drives, you
- can specify the device driver switch /CNn, where "n" represents
- the number of cache buffers. This switch sets the caching mode of
- rewritable drives to the default WORM caching mode: data is
- written to cache buffers until they're full or 1/5 of a second of
- inactivity passes, and then flushed to the cartridge.
-
- The /CNn switch increases write times by up to 200%. However, if
- a power loss or drive failure occurs, you'll lose any data that
- hasn't been flushed from the cache buffers. A directory that once
- pointed to valid files may point to invalid data after a reboot.
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