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From: kloppen@gmdzi.UUCP (Jelske Kloppenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: help! I'm in s-l-o-w  m--o--t--i--o--n!
Keywords: and so is my HD
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Date: 1 Sep 90 09:07:21 GMT
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cs63bld@unccvax.uncc.edu (b. daniels) writes:


>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
>...

>What's going on here?
>...

The problem I know. I think You dont't have TOS 1.4. Before TOS writes a new
file, it searches from the beginning of the partition for the first free
cluster and in the older TOS that needs that time. In TOS 1.4 that is much
faster, so it doesnt bother.
When I had the older TOS, I made me a program, that worked interactively
and could find all files that lie in the first 256k and then shift them to
another place on the partition. If the beginning of the partition is free,
writing new files is very much faster.
For first help You can save all files to another Partition or archive,
free that partition, write a file as filler to that partition, restore the
partition and then delete the filler.

Regards

j.k.

  Jelske Kloppenburg, kloppen@gmdzi.gmd.de, (++49 2241) 14-2433 
  German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)