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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Disk Speedup
Summary: TOS 1.4 is Great!!
Message-ID: <4634b3e2.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 17:05:48 GMT
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In article <1725@atari.UUCP>, jansen@atari.UUCP (Mark O. Jansen) writes:
> in article <1407@ultb.UUCP>, adw3345@ultb.UUCP (A.D. Williams) says:
> >  Is there a program that will speed up disk access on my hard disk? I
> > was putting some files into a partition from a number of diskettets. It
> > seemed that it took an awfully long time to find free space as the disk
> > filled up.
> >  Does TOS 1.4 help with this ? What can I do in the meantime?  
> Yes, Rainbow TOS (a.k.a. TOS 1.4) helps with this.  A LOT.  There are
> speedup programs available in the meantime, but I have not used them, and
> have no idea how stable/fast/trustworthy they are.  I'd recommend you
> get Rainbow TOS, for this and lots of other reasons.
> --
>  "Question" Mark Jansen             UUCP: ...ames!atari!jansen
>   Atari Corporation                 BIX/GEnie: mjansen
>  These views do not necessarily reflect those of Atari Corporation.
>      "No fire exits...that's a BAD PARTY."  -  Bill Spooner

 I bought TOS 1.4 from my dealer when I bought the FAST TECH Turbo16
board for my Mega ST4, and the floppy disk copy time is really improved.
I can't tell how much is caused by the T16 and how much by TOS 1.4,
but I couldn't believe how much faster a 800K floppy copyied to my
hard disk.

And the Move command works in TOS 1.4 just like John Townsend said in an
earlier message. My local ST dealer has been selling TOS 1.4 for a week or
so, and everyone likes it!! 


Good for you Atari!!

Richard Covert


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