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From: cc1@ucla-cs.ARPA (UCLA Computer Club)
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Subject: Speed of seeks
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 16:52:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 16:52:43 1986
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Reply-To: cc1@ucla-cs.UUCP (Michael Gersten)
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Wait a sec... A Seek() call on the Amiga HAS to read every sector.

Each sector on the amiga contains a (byte, word, long, whatever) indicating
how much of the sector is used. So, if you want to read byte 600, you can't
just go to the second record-- you have to go to the first, find out how
much space it uses, go to the second, find out how much, etc.

Incidently, Amiga, how is your disk arrainged? Is it 80 tracks, 160 tracks,
single sides, double sided, 512 bytes, 256 words, 128 long words, etc.

I'm talking about logical, not physical, arraignment.
(and How big (in bytes) is one space (where there are 6 used spaces in each
sector))
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