To: allan Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: Optimize your PC Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 08:11:46 +0200 From: "Eli Zaretskii" >> You mean NCache, right? > > No, I definitely don't. The program is called Norton Speedrive - > nothing else - I deliver it with PC's I sell... It may be a renamed I never heard about this one. Guess it's always something new out there to learn... > I have the latest Smartdrive (with MSDOS 6.22), and I have tested the > one which comes with PC-DOS 6.3 also - they just don't compare... How did you compare them? Any particular application, any specific benchmark programs? > Speedrv is much more stable than Smartdrive, at least on my system... > DOOM (an example...) crashed all the time with Smartdrive, works just > fine with Speedrv. My boy (and occasionally me, too) plays DOOM and DOOM II all the time with SmartDrive--never saw any problem whatsoever. I guess it's something in the CMOS settings or the motherboard design. But this really belongs to rec.games.doom.XXX... > When it comes to caching CDROM drives it's absolutely fantastic - > my 2x behaves like a 3-3.5x with most applications. (Norton > says that a speedup of 4000% is possible...) SmartDrive which comes with DOS 6.x does CD-ROM caching also, although I don't use this (I use the MSCDEX caching instead).