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Subject: Re: StepRate ... a utility that makes your floppies FASTER!
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 19:13:49 EDT
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Summary: Didn't speed up mine either.

I got similar results to Kevin's with my tests. I was running Facc at the
time, so I tried taking away all it's buffers. No change. I also tried
closing facc. No change. I tried values from 1200 (the min) to 20000.
20000 slowed down a 9 second directory read by about a half second.
Smaller values had no noticable effect.  I was doing my tests under 
Shell 2.06m on DF1:.


Joel Swank
Tektronix, Redmond, Oregon
joels@tekred.TEK.COM
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