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caching IDE or caching SCSI card?

April 26, 2017caching card IDE SCSI

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Promise Technology (http://www.promise.com/techsupp.html) has Win95 versions of its Caching IDE host adapter drivers, so be sure to grab them. Tekram (http://www.tekram.com/drivers/) will also have drivers for its IDE caching adapter, but the SCSI caching adapter should work with Adaptec 1540 drivers if they didn’t get around to writing Win95 SCSI drivers yet. Most of the time, the standard IDE drivers will work with caching IDE cards, though they won’t take advantage of the card’s cache. If you do manage to get a Win95 caching IDE driver, try to set Win95’s own cache to bare minimum (384 KB) so you make good use of your controller’s cache instead.