blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (11/08/88)
I just started using BlitzDisk on my hard drive, and there are all kind
of dire warnings in the manual about possible unknown "BAD THINGS"
happening with the FFS and BlitzDisk. The manual says to check with
Microsmiths on BIX to see if BlitzDisk has been officially approved for
use with the FFS.
Could some kind soul with a BIX account inquire of Charlie Heath if the
combination of FFS and BlitzDisk has been blessed?
For those using BlitzDisk (part of the TxEd Plus package), I've found
that a very small CLIP limit (I'm using 5) is better than DIRONLY if you
use the Workbench much. DIRONLY means just that, you get no caching on
.info files, so opening drawers come off the HD instead of out of the
cache. Using a CLIP value of 5 lets 2.5K files load in to the cache,
which is plenty for most icons.
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"Nobody will ever need more than 64K." "Nobody needs multitasking on a PC."andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) (11/10/88)
In article <1062@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >Could some kind soul with a BIX account inquire of Charlie Heath if the >combination of FFS and BlitzDisk has been blessed? Charlie has not blessed the combination; he suggests waiting until he comes out with a version of BlitzDisk that he knows is safe to use with FFS. -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Possibly this is a new usage of the word 'compatible' with which I was previously unfamiliar" Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
ecphssrw@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) (11/17/88)
In article <5208@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: >Charlie has not blessed the combination; he suggests waiting >until he comes out with a version of BlitzDisk that he knows is >safe to use with FFS. But it is probably worth pointing out that AddBuffers, when applied to an FFS hard disk partition, uses *fast* RAM, not chip, giving most of the effect of BlitzDisk. The missing features are, of course, caching directory blocks only, and allowing you to decrease as well as increase the cache size during a given session. I have AddBuffers FAST: 200 in my Startup-Sequence and am pleased with the result. -- Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu swalton@solar.stanford.edu ...!csun!afws.csun.edu!bcphssrw