[comp.sys.atari.st] Slow motion problem FIXED-Summary

cs63bld@unccvax.uncc.edu (b. daniels) (09/01/90)

Many thanks to all the people who responded to my call for help!

It appears that the slowness of writing to large GEM partitions on a
HD is caused by a TOS 1.0 bug.  It can be patched by running FATSPEED.
FATSPEED.ARC should be available at any large archive site.  The improvement
is impressive!

Thanks again,
Brian
(cs63bld@unccvax.uucp)

towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend) (09/03/90)

in article <2656@unccvax.uncc.edu>, cs63bld@unccvax.uncc.edu (b. daniels) says:
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> 
> 
> Many thanks to all the people who responded to my call for help!
> 
> It appears that the slowness of writing to large GEM partitions on a
> HD is caused by a TOS 1.0 bug.  It can be patched by running FATSPEED.
> FATSPEED.ARC should be available at any large archive site.  The improvement
> is impressive!
> 
> Thanks again,
> Brian
> (cs63bld@unccvax.uucp)

Actually, a better solution would be an upgrade to the latest version
of HDX (currently 3.02) and the latest TOS, TOS 1.4.

This would make your hard drive MUCH faster and is much more reliable
than fatspeed.

-- John Townsend				ames!atari!towns
   Atari Corp, Systems Software