Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!bath63!pes From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: my ideal cache program Message-ID: <2752@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> Date: 4 Jul 88 10:14:55 GMT References: <157@cstw01.UUCP> Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) Organization: AUCC c/o University of Bath Lines: 9 My (rather limited) investigations lead me to believe that your '(optional) read-ahead' -- i.e. convert sector reads to track reads and cache the whole track -- unless of course you've already got it -- probably offers the greatest potential for speedup. However, I haven't yet designed such a thing clever enough to deal with the fact that not all my disks are laid out with the same number of sectors/track. Cheers, Paul