bridger@RAND-UNIX.ARPA (08/23/86)
Beta-testing for BackGrounder has turned up a serious defect in a Big Board I double-density 8" bios (19 June 83). It handles sector deblocking very inefficiently, resulting in a 20-fold slowdown in effective disk i/o when reading then writing the same random records! Does someone have a more recent version? Is the problem present in the BB II bioses also (the code contains lots of calls to "flush"). Is the author reachable? --bridger