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From: plipp@iaik (Peter Lipp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help needed; VLB caching controller & smartdrv
Date: 14 Jul 1993 06:43:39 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
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Azlan Ali (awel@icews1.ipc.kanazawa-u.ac.jp) wrote:
: I have got a system with 8Mb of ram and  VLB caching controller with
: 512K. I installed the accompanied device driver in my config.sys and
: also put smartdrv in my autoexec.bat. It looks like my smartdrv is
: taking away 2mb of my memory. What I wanted to know is how to make
: sure the caching contoller`s memory is used.
I confess, I do not know what VLB means, but I do think that your caching
controller is supposed to do memory caching for the CPU and NOT hard-disk
caching. So smartdrv has to take away some memory if you want that too.

Peter