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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
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: 4 Sep 90 16:54:16 GMT
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cs63bld@unccvax.uncc.edu (b. daniels) writes:
> One of my partitions (10mb) is just about full, and
> write times to it are horrifying!

Get TOS 1.4.  This is the chief user-visible improvement in TOS 1.4
over previous TOSes.  Another of the improvements will help, too:
adding enough memory to the sector cache (with CACHEnnn, for example)
to hold all the FAT and root directory sectors on all your disks.  That
way your disk won't constantly be reading the same stuff (the FATs) for
every file: it'll already be in memory.

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