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Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:04:19 PDT7
From:	"Dave Watson" <david.watson@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HDD cache size choice with OS/2

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On 2 Jun 2003 at 11:54, Info 4 SYNass wrote:
> If 8MB cache works with OS/2 then I do not hesitate to choose but
> I would choose 2MB cache if I know 8MB cache works with M$ only !!

I expect someone like Dani is the only reliable source. But I can't
imagine why operating system would even know about cache, much
less have problems dealing with it. Cache is where the drive
electronics put data when it's writing to the disk, before it is sent out to
the heads to write to a disk location. Unfragmented disk probably
doesn't need much. Fragmentation might want more. It would be
interesting to see test data showing cache use when sending files with
different OS, different amounts of frag. What else could affect it?

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