marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron) (06/27/91)
Hi ST-people, Now that I have my HD spinning away without zorching my video display [ :-) ] I notice that writing to the HD is getting a bit sluggish. I was wondering why? The drive is Toshiba, host adaptor is ICD. I run NeoDesk 2.0 on TOS 1.0 (yeah, yeah, I know I ought to fit some new ROMs...). Setting write verify and cache on or off makes no difference. Now, if I use ICD's RATEHD program, it tells me the thing is shunting data at 589kB/s with a 25ms access time. That looks to me to be FAST!!! So any clues why writing is a drag? Has the drive just become monumentally fragmented? Any help much appreciated. :-) [M][a][r][c] ################################################################################ # # marc@sequoia.cray.com # . . # # Marc CR Bouron # M.Bouron@cray.co.uk (ARPA) # _|\ /|_ # # Cray Research (UK) Ltd. # M.Bouron@crayuk.uucp (DOMAIN) # (_|_V_|_) # # +44 344 485971 x2208 # M.Bouron@uk.co.cray (JANET) # | | # # # ...!ukc!crayuk!M.Bouron (UUCP) # # ################################################################################
csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) (06/28/91)
marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron) writes: >The drive is Toshiba, host adaptor is ICD. I run NeoDesk 2.0 on TOS 1.0 (yeah, >yeah, I know I ought to fit some new ROMs...). Setting write verify and cache >on or off makes no difference. Now, if I use ICD's RATEHD program, it tells me >the thing is shunting data at 589kB/s with a 25ms access time. That looks to me >to be FAST!!! So any clues why writing is a drag? Has the drive just become >monumentally fragmented? Get TOS 1.04. This will speed up HD access dramatically. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Claus_Brod@wue.maus.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------