Drive Setup: Suggested Settings; Some Notes About Settings - Power Computing PowerCenter PRO User Manual

Some Notes About Settings

Cache
For most applications, bumping up Dynamic RAM in the Cache feature in
Drive Setup will show an improvement in your CD-ROM drives speed and
responsiveness. Remember, though, when CDT is active this RAM will be
dedicated to caching CDs, and will otherwise be unavailable to your system.
Remember Static Images
Set Remember Static Images, in the Cache feature, for how you use your CDs
rather than for the types of CDs you use. If you tend to do the same things
each time you use a disc, it's best to have it enabled and set to at least one. If
you do different things with a disc each time you use it, you may find it help-
ful to disable this option.
Multimedia discs
If you have a noticeable problem with multimedia CDs, try steps 1 and 2
before moving onto 3 and 4. Steps 3 and 4 will slow general operation of your
CD-ROM drive, but will help QuickTime™:
1. Select Disabled for Read Ahead.
2. Uncheck the Continue Prescanning Until Full checkbox in Prescan.
3. Uncheck the Static Disk Cache checkbox in Cache.
4. Turn off all caching by unchecking the Fast checkbox for the device in
the main CDT application window.
Miscellaneous notes on CDs
• For CDs with many files, such as some shareware CDs, bumping up the
Static Cache may be helpful—particularly Static RAM cache. Static
cache stores the directories that point to file locations. When there are
many files, your system will be able to get to them faster.
• For CDs with large files, setting Read Ahead to Large may increase
performance speed.
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