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From: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Slow file creation on hard drive
Message-ID: <649@opal.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 16:25:05 GMT
References: <11358@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com> <118953@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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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).

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