rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (06/29/88)
Sorry, I can't resist. I read this in comp.sys.atari.st: copy 40 files (smallest = 1KB, largest = 200KB, total size = 530KB) from partition D: to a new directory on partition C: (partition C: is 10MB, with about 5.4MB free). command given at msh prompt: time "cp * c:\tmp" without FATSPEED time returned: 0:07:27.500 with FATSPEED time returned: 0:02:58.275 That's over 2.5 times faster!! I had to perform the test on my Amiga. As close as I could, I created 40 files from 1K to 200K in one partition, totalling 538KB, and then copied them all to another partition. The time it took: 17 seconds That's over 10 times faster the fast time above; 25 times faster than the slow time! (Of course, I'm sure this isn't a fair test somehow.) But I remember all that stuff I read about Atari having such a fast hard disk interface and all that. Oh, my hardware? 2090, with CDC Wren SCSI drive. And to copy a single 530K file from one place to another takes only: 3.5 seconds as near as I can tell. (Just reading or just writing is, of course, much faster, because the seek time disappears.) Enough of this. -- /-- Tomas Rokicki /// Box 2081 Stanford, CA 94309 / o Radical Eye Software /// (TAMU EE '85) (415) 326-5312 \ / | . . . or I \\\///Join CCFFAALW---Concerned Citzens V | won't get dressed \XX/Fighting For An Acronym-Less World