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From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Harddisks for Amiga 2000
Message-ID: <1767@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 10:36:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 10:36:12 1987
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Keywords: Harddisks Amiga2000 AmigaDOS

In article <814@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green) writes:
>
>Now here's the question for Commodore or other parties in the know.
>I also have heard that the Commodore-supplied RAM: driver "bypasses" a lot
>of AmigaDOS so that it can get extra speed.
It doesn't really bypass AmigaDOS...rather the RAM: handler has its
own file handler which is quite a bit faster because it makes some
assumptions about its physical media.
>So the question is,
>(a) will Commodore be providing an upgraded AmigaDOS that has improved
>speed for hard disks, (b) will CBM write a HD Handler that will bypass
>AmigaDOS to get full speed, or (c) will developers such as ASDG write
>their own handlers to get full speed hard disk performance?
We are currently doing bug-wringing on a filesystem handler for
hard disks, that knows a bit about hard disks, and is able to
get increased performance.  (It works with the current AmigaDOS 1.2,
through AmigaDOS's ability to use alternate filesystems)
(That answers (a) and (b), I suppose.  When ?  Ah..in the fullness
of time, at the appropriate juncture, in..., no, seriously, when
we trust it.) 
>
>-- Dan Green



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