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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Slow file creation on hard drive
Summary: yes, fastfat or tos1.4 is the answer!
Message-ID: <725@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 89 14:31:18 GMT
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Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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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
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