Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!mprvaxa!bsmith From: bsmith@mprvaxa.UUCP (Brian Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Disk caching programs Message-ID: <832@mprvaxa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 14:01:35 EST Article-I.D.: mprvaxa.832 Posted: Sat Jan 10 14:01:35 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 22:43:25 EST Organization: Microtel Pacific Research, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Lines: 16 I'm interested in getting a disk caching program (Lightning, Flash, Vcache, et al) for my PC. I've tried EMMCACHE, which was posted on Usenet, but the speed improvement I've experienced has been slight. Therefore, I would like to hear about some of the commercial packages available. The major points I'm interested in are: - Is the program reliable? - Does it speed up access to both hard and floppy disks? - Does it use EMS (Aboveboard) memory? - Does it do full-track buffering? - How much conventional memory does it gobble up? - Does it have any bells or whistles? Please send any respones directly to me. (You should be able to find the appropriate path in the UUCP-supplied header of this message.) Given more than one or two responses, I will post a summary.