dick@ahds.UUCP (Dick Heijne CCS/TS) (04/22/91)
FATSPEED: After one year of struggle with defective FAT tables I installed FATSPEED this week in my STF. GREAT!!! (thanks, Graham and Tomas) Problems I had were verryy sloooow creation of files on my harddisk (btw, a Megafile 44 (the removable disk thing)) and FAT tables in the ST that went corrupt each time I did a 'show info' of a HD partiton, as a result of which some directories showed empty (0 bytes use in 0 items), while they weren't - I had to reboot over-and-over again to repair them. FATSPEED cured all problems. I vote for an Oscar for it's creator, Ulrich Kuebler !! AUTO-FOLDER: I noticed some peculiarities earlier in starting programs from the Auto folder: when I added a program to it never runned automatically at bootup. To get Fatspeed to run, I HAD to get it run at bootup. I also always had the impression that FOLDERXXX.prg never runned (no output, while it generated output - something like 'FOLDER100 installed' when I ran it seperately). I have tested things as follows: Newly created AUTO folder, and copied in sequence: AHDI.prg, FOLDER100.prg and then FATSPEED.prg into it. Booted up (cold boot) and looked... And ONLY output of AHDI appeared in the screen. No output of the other two progs appeared on the screen. FATSPEED did nothing (easy to check) so it never ran. Next test: Recreated AUTO folder, and copied the above files now in different order, controlled by instinct. So first FATSPEED, than FOLDER100, than AHDI. Cold boot, and...... FIRST AHDI runs and generates output on the screen, followed by FATSPEED (displays it's author etc), and at last FOLDER100 runs, producing the Installed message. ????????????????????????? Can anyone explain this wierd sequence of execution to me ? Data: Machine = Atari 1040 STF, running TOS 1.2 with attached HD Mega44 ---- with AHDI 3.1 diskdriver. No further features installed. Thanks for any comments on this, Dick.