Re: [NTLK] Large HD and ATA Drivers

From: David Orriss Jr (dave_at_davenet.net)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 16:28:42 PST

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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Paul Guyot wrote:
>
> 220 is probably too high, I mean that it probably slows down the
> Newton more than accelerating it because that memory is stolen from
> the Newton's package cache (like any large chunk of memory you would
> allocate from C++).
>

Which reminds me, Paul. I had a question for you... ;)

I have a 128MB ATA card divided up into 4/32MB stores. What should my
cache values be for best throughput? I think I currently have them
set to 140 or something like that...

TIA.

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