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From: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: HD appears sluggish
Message-ID: <075027.10071@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 14:11:55 GMT
Sender: marc@sequoia (Marc Bouron)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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Hi ST-people,

Now that I have my HD spinning away without zorching my video display [  :-)  ]
I notice that writing to the HD is getting a bit sluggish.  I was wondering why?

The drive is Toshiba, host adaptor is ICD.  I run NeoDesk 2.0 on TOS 1.0 (yeah,
yeah, I know I ought to fit some new ROMs...).  Setting write verify and cache
on or off makes no difference.  Now, if I use ICD's RATEHD program, it tells me
the thing is shunting data at 589kB/s with a 25ms access time.  That looks to me
to be FAST!!!  So any clues why writing is a drag?  Has the drive just become
monumentally fragmented?

Any help much appreciated.  :-)

[M][a][r][c]


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