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From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Megafile 44 slowing down...
Keywords: atari, st, megafile
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.143645.17980@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 29 Mar 91 14:36:45 GMT
References: <1495@ahds.UUCP> <3127@laura.UUCP> <484@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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Comment-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

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In article <484@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
> In <3127@laura.UUCP> klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
> 
> >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....
> >|> 
> 
> >You aren't using TOS 1.4, are you? Get it and your problem will vanish.
> 
> Or, try out TURBODOS (it is on atari.archive).
> 
> A word of warning though:  I used TURBODOS for 2 years, and I experienced
> occasional problems with files, and eventually had corrupted files.  This
> may have just been a bad sector in an unfortunate place, who knows, but
> now I've got TOS 1.4, so I'll never know.
> 
> If you try it, you'll like it - it speeds things up HEAPS.
> 
> Warwick.
> --
>   _--_|\   	warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
>  /      *  <--	Computer Science Department,
>  \_.--._/ 	University of Queensland,
>        v    	AUSTRALIA.

Don't ever use TURBODOS, its VERY buggy, even Atari does not recomend it.

From what I have read, it was compiled with Turbo 'C' Version 1.0,
this I believe has/had bugs in its libraries.

Far better to go and get TOS 1.4, and possibly try a Optomiser
on your Partitions..
-- 
Roger W. Sheppard   85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...