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- From: pad@galaxy.nsc.com (Paul Denny x8349)
- Subject: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
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- Keywords: caching disc controllers
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- Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:56:26 GMT
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- I am looking into assembling a 486 machine and my
- research so far has raised a few questions which I
- was hoping may be resolvable through the net.
-
- As a starter I note that caching disc controllers
- are supposed to increase the speed of disc intensive
- applications but a salesman I spoke to 8^) claimed
- that these are flakey designs as a single bad bit
- can propogate through your data and corrupt it. He
- suggested additional system RAM and partition it
- in DOS to have a large cache area. Can anyone verify
- or debunk this and provide an explanation?
-
- Many thanks - Paul
-