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From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BCPL/AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <1959@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 17:20:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1959
Posted: Mon Jun  1 17:20:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 01:42:24 EDT
References: <559@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <559@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@pnet02.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>"Stuff we are doing with hard disks" ?? Care to elaborate Andy?
>
I can tell you what, but not when...

As some people have noticed, the default AmigaDOS file handler
doesn't seem to have a real good idea of the actual structure
of disk drives.  To improve hard disk performance, we and Tim
King have been working on a file handler for hard disk drives,
which does things like sort the seeks before doing them in
an attempt to have only 1 pass over the disk, better use of
the already existing AmigaDOS structures (ie improved exnext()),
depending on the harddisk hardware for error checking 
(hard disk hardware does more in this)...you know...the suggestions
people have been making on this very net :-)

The appropriate improvements will make their way into the default
file handler in a future release.

Currently the thing is in testing.  We want it *reliable* before
it gets out there.

I'll let everyone know when its ready (when & how to get it)

			andy
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