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Subject: Re: StepRate ... a utility that makes your floppies FASTER!
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 14:25:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 14:25:26 1987
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Reply-To: hah@mipon3.UUCP (Hans Hansen)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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In article <1683@tekred.TEK.COM> joels@tekred.TEK.COM (Joel Swank) writes:
>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
From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen)
Path: mipon3!hah

Please also tell us which company made your drives.  I suspect that your
drives are slightly more intelegent that the NECs that the original aurthor
and I have. ??

Hans Hansen