On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:24:18 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:50:30 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I am using the same hard drive as used on my 386. Only a 16 bit FAT, not
>> 32 bit. My OS is Caldera DR-DOS, v. 3.02. Does the 16 bit FAT cause it
>> to run much slower than it perhaps otherwise would with a 32 bit FAT?
> Are you using a decent (512kb at least) HD cache ?
> How many buffers ?
I'm benefitting greatly from a 2M cache on PTS-DOS, write behind
enabled. Using RAMDISK instead only slows it on my Pentium 60 with 16M
RAM. Beware though - there are certain numbers of blocks which result in
more use of conventional memory. It goes "level by level". You can
experiment until you find where the next level is, then choose the next
lower sensible cache size. Yes, it'll work with DR, too; just not AS
fast <vbg>.
> - Clarence Verge
> - Still using Arachne V1.62 ....
Thinking of pulling that one back out, myself. For now, tho...
Bob
Starts April 1, 2001
-- Arachne V1.67, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
