Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Speeding up disk accesses - Food for thought. Message-ID: <1316@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: 18 Jan 90 14:09:17 GMT References: <361@marvin.moncam.co.uk> <25B49A6D.23757@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu Reply-To: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13 In article <25B49A6D.23757@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: > > Yup, all the administrative stuff (except for subdirectories) is >at the front of a DOS disk - the FAT and the root directory, primarily. >This is why it makes sense on DOS to have the most important files at the >front of the disk. No, all the administrative stuff is at the front of a DOS _partition_. It sounds (from the original post, about putting it in the middle of the disk) as though it would be worthwhile setting up the most heavily used partition about halfway through a disk, so that its FAT ends up in the middle tracks. Duncan Murdoch