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From: landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Hard Disk
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Date: 25 Jul 88 06:00:03 GMT
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Reply-To: landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay)
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I got my hard disk.  It took me under 1 hour to get it hooked up 
to the Berkeley Microsystems supplied equipment.  I had a few problems
with the manual, but everything turned out o.k. there.  When I tried
to format the disk, the software wouldn't recognize any SCSI devices.
It took me 2 hours to figure out what was wrong.  The drive had a jumper
that had it set to drive select 2 rather than drive select 1.  As soon
as I changed that everything worked fine.

NOW THE PROBLEM (Not a problem with BMS, just GEM):

I bought a fast hard disk (28ms 42meg) and partitioned it as follows:

C - ATARI 1  - 15 Meg
D - ATARI 2  - 15 Meg
E - MSDOS    -  5 Meg
F - Magic Sac-  6 Meg

I thought this was reasonable.  I then proceeded to copy my disks to the
hard drive.  As soon as get past ~3 Megs on a partition the performance
gets very very very bad.  My floppy is almost as fast.  What gives????????
Did DRI screw up that bad??????   I have a 100K read/write cache on C and D.
(it didn't help much)

What is the solution.  Which of those PD programs going around will solve
this?  Which are SAFE???  Did Alan Pratt say this was fixed in the new ROMs?
Does ATARI have a realistic date on availability??  


HELP!!!! 

SIGNED - The person who spent plenty of money on a fast drive to see it wasted!

 
 
James A. Landay

ARPA:   landay@cory.berkeley.edu
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