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From: cs63bld@unccvax.uncc.edu (b. daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: help! I'm in s-l-o-w  m--o--t--i--o--n!
Keywords: and so is my HD
Message-ID: <2648@unccvax.uncc.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 22:18:03 GMT
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
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I have a 20mb HD on my 1040st with an ICD SCSI adapter and a omti controller
tying it all together.  One of my partitions (10mb) is just about full, and
write times to it are horrifying!  We're talking a minimum of 7-10sec per file
where the drive doesn't appear to be doing anything, then the red light will 
flash, and on to the next file.  The mostly empty partition on the drive still
responds just as fast as you would expect...
I thought it must be a fragementation-type problem, and lacking anything like
the defraggers available for the PC, I backed up all my files to floppy
with Turtle, restored them, and looked forward to a performace increase.
Nope.

What's going on here?  Any help would be appreciated.
Also, is there a PD program to complement Turtle?  I mean something that
restores to your HD and just prompts you for each disk.  That would be a lot
easier (and faster!) than copying them from the desktop....

Thanks in advance,
Brian Daniels
(cs63bld@unccvax.uucp)