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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: PC Minix and 1.44MB floppies
Message-ID: <2845@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 8 Aug 90 23:41:45 GMT
References: <3851@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <3851@crash.cts.com> cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:

>took a long time.  I tried a couple of different block sizes, 512B (the
>default) and 1KB, and read the floppy device into a file on a hard disk;
>curiously, one blocksize was slower reading onto the hard disk and the

Perhaps Bruce can provide some concrete information on this, but I generally
set the block size to the size of one track to give the driver some hope of not
missing sectors. (I'm not sure if the driver does track readahead) You may care
to experiment with track sized block sizes.

Earl
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