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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Megafile 44 slowing down...
Keywords: atari, st, megafile
Message-ID: <3127@laura.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 91 08:34:27 GMT
References: <1495@ahds.UUCP>
Sender: news@laura.UUCP
Reply-To: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
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In article <1495@ahds.UUCP>, dick@ahds.UUCP (Dick Heijne CCS/TS) writes:
|> ... under TOS I have a severe problem of VVVEEERRRRYYYY slow performance
|> when
|> I want to ADD a file on the partition and it's still decreasing....
|> 
|> For example, when I copy a file from a flop or from some directory into
|> a
|> particular folder on the TOS (drive C) partition, the harddisk moves
|> (it
|> sounds and the orange BUSY light flashes once briefly), and than the
|> orange
|> BUSY led starts blinking with a frequency of approx. 1 blink/sec for
|> about
|> (now) 19 times, after which the disk rattles again and stores the file
|> in
|> the appropriate place.

You aren't using TOS 1.4, are you? Get it and your problem will vanish.

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