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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Speed Disk on IDE Drives?
Message-ID: <12466.27bd5ecb@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 16:33:15 GMT
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Hi,

My question is about using Norton Speed Disk or similar programs on my 200 MB
IDE hard disk.  From what I know of IDE disks, they use translating controllers
which do not necessarily arrange data on the disk the way that DOS thinks it
does (ie: setup says disk has < 1024 tracks or 17 SPT for compatibility, when
it actually differs).  The question I have is:  Will this affect a program
like Speed Disk in the sense that what it thinks is making contiguous sectors
of a file is actually scattering the file about the disk, possibly worse than
originally?

Thanks,
Bryon Daly
daly@ecs.umass.edu