kron%aiki@Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron) (08/02/89)
I have a 40 meg. HD (4 10 meg. partition) hooked up to my atari (It's an ST-506 - and I'm using the Berkley Mirco System BMS-200 board with an adaptech 4000) the problem is that when I create a file it takes an extremely long time. Berkley says it 'cause of the way TOS searches the FAT and suggested I either get 1) a pd FAT caching program 2) Hard Disk Sentry (a program that moves all of the files to the end of the FAT) 3) wait for TOS 1.4 (The answer to the ultimate question, which we all know can't coexist with the ultimate question). :-) :-) :-) Just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this or any usefull information!!!! These opinions don't even belong to me any more. internet: kron@sun.com
hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) (08/02/89)
In article <118953@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, kron%aiki@Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron) writes: > I have a 40 meg. HD (4 10 meg. partition) hooked up to my atari > (It's an ST-506 - and I'm using the Berkley Mirco System BMS-200 > board with an adaptech 4000) the problem is that when I create a > file it takes an extremely long time. > > Berkley says it 'cause of the way TOS searches the FAT and suggested > I either get > 1) a pd FAT caching program > 3) wait for TOS 1.4 (The answer to the ultimate question, which > we all know can't coexist with the ultimate question). > :-) :-) :-) > > Just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this > or any usefull information!!!! > These opinions don't even belong to me any more. > internet: kron@sun.com You have just discovered the wheel (or maybe an axle)! This is the ifamous S L O W copy to a hard disk as it fills up. Generally a file system > 10 MEG is just horible slow. I started using FASTFAT when it came out and it makes all copies about the same. 16 MEG file systems work as fast as small ones. I now have tos 1.4 and it is just as fast without any help. By the way, Did you know you can really buy tos 1.4 from Atari. Problem is it costs you $172. (They call it the developers documentation + TOS 1.4). Still, for that price, it available to anyone. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com
alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) (08/04/89)
In article <118953@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> kron%aiki@Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron) writes: > [...] >Just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this >or any usefull information!!!! If there's any way to create more than four partitions on your disk (the driver you're using must be able to handle this), this should help while waiting for TOS1.4. The problem is, indeed, the very slow FAT handling of older GEMDOS releases. Re-organizing your disk could also accelerate the FAT search if you're using a caching program because the cache hits much better if a file's FAT entries are contiguous. For re-organizing I recommend the use of Simon Poole's REORG/DLII (great stuff, Simon). -- Thomas Cervera | UUCP: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP SysMan RKOpdp (RSTS/E) | alderaan%tubopal.UUCP@TUB.BITNET (saves $$$) D-1000 Berlin 30 | ...!pyramid!unido!tub!opal!alderaan Motzstrasze 14 | BITNET: alderaan%tub@DB0TUI11.BITNET