Appendix B Installing The Highpoint Xstore Pro Utility - Abit ZH6 User Manual

Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility
Appendix B Installing the HighPoint XStore Pro
Utility
We provide a useful and powerful utility in our product package, HighPoint XStore Pro.
What does XStore do? The XStore Pro is a hard disk enhancement utility which can improve
system performance. The basic concept is using a read-ahead caching algorithm to improve
the hard disk performance. With a market trend where most system's standard
configurations are moving towards 48 MBytes memory size or beyond, HighPoint's XStore
Pro provides higher system performance. XStore Pro is a new generation of XStore MMX
Accelerator for Storage.
XStore Pro utilizes the bigger system memory size to enhance memory management by
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working with Windows 95 and 98. XStore Pro optimizes higher system performance by
read ahead caching after seeking, with large block sizes of hard disks. And best of all,
XStore Pro supports several PCI Bus Master Controllers such as Intel, SiS, Ali, Via and
others.
When you install XStore Pro, you can choose to install CD Xpress at the same time. Why do
you need CD Xpress? We'll tell you more about it.
CD-ROM technology is growing fast, but its performance is still unacceptable compared to
today's hard drives. The transfer rates of today's hard drives can exceed 18MB/sec with
access times below 12ms. However, transfer rates for the fastest CD-ROM drives on the
market are below 2MB/sec with access times over 100 ms.
CD Xpress was created to accelerate the accessing speed of the CD-ROM drive by utilizing
the hard drive's high performance. CD Xpress reads and buffers data from the CD-ROM to
an area in the hard drive. With CD Xpress, when you access CD-ROM data, you are actually
accessing data from a swap file in the hard drive. This results in a tremendous increase in
CD-ROM performance without penalties.
Before you install this utility, there are several things you need to know.
Important Note
1. You can only install one Bus Master Driver at a time in your system, or the drivers will
result in conflict and cause system hangs. Please make sure you don't have any Bus
Master Driver installed in your system before you install XStore Pro! You must remove
all components of the previous Bus Master Driver before you install XStore Pro to your
system. For example, you cannot install both the Intel
B-1
® bus master driver and HighPoint
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