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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: HD appears sluggish
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.200246.23209@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 27 Jun 91 20:02:46 GMT
References: <075027.10071@timbuk.cray.com>
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron) writes:

>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?

Get TOS 1.04. This will speed up HD access dramatically.

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