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From: maltasr@csusac.ecs.csus.edu (Robert Maltas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Daisy chaining SCSI drives----benefit??
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.211044.3827@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 21:10:44 GMT
Sender: maltasr@csusac.csus.edu (Robert Maltas)
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I was joining together 2 files a week ago and noticed quite a bit of thrashing
on my hard drive. I have a GVP Series II card and 210 meg Quantum ProDrive.
One of the two files I was joining was 6 megs, so I placed this in a RAM:
disk; the other file was 1.5 megs, which resided on my hard drive. The file
which was formed by the JOIN command was directed to the same hard drive 
(where the 1.5 meg file  resided).

If I had a second hard drive, so that the newly formed file was created
on that hard drive (i.e. no 2 files are on the same device now), would
this get rid of heavy disk thrashing?

Robert Maltas
bobm@csufres.csufresno.edu
maltasr@csus.ecs.edu


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