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CD-ROM cache under DOS

    25-Jan-93 08:33:26
To: Heath Stahl 71163,3631
Hopefully, you have found compatibility with your CDROM drivers. We have had numerous reports from the field regarding in-compatibility with Lightning and CDROM drivers. However, on the performance side, as I mentioned earlier; CD Speedway is the only CDROM product to use integrated file caching for read-ahead. There's been a lot of talk on forums like GAMERS where they have found Speedway to offer compatibility with Multimedia applications on non-MPC drives. I'd like to see other caches do that <g>… In addition, where we tested other caches, including Lightning, not one could come close to our benchmark results on these applications, which is why none have come forward to say that they can match the performance of Speedway. The benchmarks are available in the LIB, along with configuration advise and performance expectations. Other questions, feel free to e-mail or post here. Reese.