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Subject: Re: SH204 Hard disk facts - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 15:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 21 15:21:00 1986
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Nf-From: exunido!hmm    Sep 21 20:21:00 1986

Our experience has been that the best way to use the harddisk for compiling is:
1. partitioning it into 4 partitions first.
   This way creating files takes not too much time.
2. using a ramdisk for every temporary file.  This speeds up a lot !

However, the whole slowness of the GEMDOS filesystem handling is a pain
in the *** !  Maybe the following would help:
Implement a track buffer for reading.  Useful for floppies only, I think.
But it would help considerably.
Do some write-behind if possible.  It gets a bit complicated, and I don't
know if it would fit into the bios well.
!! Beat those bugs out of GEMDOS !!
The slowness of file creation is a real bug.  As far as I know the file
system layout, it should not depend on the filling grade of the partition.
When you watch the activity light on the harddisk during file creation
you see that there is something realy weird going on.

	Hans-Martin Mosner (hmm@unido.uucp, hmm@unido.bitnet)