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- From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:53:21 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
- Lines: 16
- Message-ID: <dpn2.65.721007601@po.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <Bx9ME2.H40@voder.nsc.com>
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- Keywords: caching disc controllers
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- In article <Bx9ME2.H40@voder.nsc.com> pad@galaxy.nsc.com (Paul Denny x8349) writes:
- >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?
-
- I do not have the good fortune to own a caching disk controller, but I have
- heard only good things about them. Perhaps the RAM would cost more than the
- controller, giving the salesman more profits? :-)
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- | Damien Neil | dpn2@po.cwru.edu | Case Western Reserve University |
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