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From: mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Slow workbench disk problem
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Date: 21 Dec 90 04:22:31 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig)
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I hope someone can help me with a problem I'm having.  I decided to customise
my Workbench 1.3 disk (backup copy of course) by putting a lot of commonly
used commands in the c directory.  Everything was going fine, I even put in
ConMan and Popcli.  Everything was still fine (workbench disk just about full
though).  Then I put 1 more command (history) into the c directory.  It fit
fine (still just about full though).  Now whenever I boot up with this disk,
at bootup, the disk drive seems to spin for a long time (and head noises as
if it's reading something) before anything is done.  Even if I boot up with
another workbench disk (boots fine, BTW) and then put my customized 
workbench disk in df1: it spins, etc. for about a minute or so.  I know 
there are things that are done whenever you put in a disk, but this pause
seems rediculous.  BTW, there are now a lot of files in the c directory.
Also, BTW, I don't think the history command could be the problem (it's 
fairly small).  
    If I can't speed up the workbench disk, I'll probably have to delete some
stuff I don't want to, so I hope someone can solve my problem.

Mark      

Mark R. Craig
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