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Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility F-1
Appendix F Install HighPoint XStore Pro
Utility
We provide a useful and powerful utility in our product package, the HighPoint
XStore Pro . What does XStore do? The XStore Pro is a hard disk enhancement
utility which can improve the system performance. The basic concept is using
read-ahead caching algorithm to improve the hard disk performance. With a
market trend where most systems standard configurations are moving towards 48
MBytes memory size or beyond, the HighPoint 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 working with Windows
®
95 and 98. XStore Pro optimizes higher
system performance by read ahead caching after seeking with large block size of
hard disk. And best of all, XStore Pro supports several PCI Bus Master
Controllers such as Intel, SiS, Ali, Via and others.
When you install the XStore Pro, you can choose to install the CD Xpress at same
time. Why you need the 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
100ms.
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 Intel
®
bus master driver and HighPoint XStore Pro in your system,