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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Harddrives from hell
Message-ID: <5104@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 88 05:20:18 GMT
References: <8807281433.AA02114@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <751@applix.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <751@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
>In article <8807281433.AA02114@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>Congrats.  I think July was Hard Disk Month, since I and _several_ other
>Amigoids I know got disks this month (also StarDrives).

Yeah, really. Must be the moon or something.

>I performed these experiments myself, and discovered that performance
>improved noticeably if I _decreased_ the number of buffers- I currently
>use 8.  I also noticed that the WRITE speeds could almost be doubled
>by adjusting the interleave to 2 or 3.

I used a much less rigourous test of disk speed: I noticed that it
was worthwhile loading WorkBench again.

I used it at the beginning, but as I became more and more familiar
with the system and got my gurus down to one a night, I'd rely
more and more on the CLI (With Matt/Steves Shell)

Before I got my hard drive, I dont think I had laoded the workbench in
a year and a half, except every now and again to rename disks as
I could never remember the syntax from the CLI.

But as soon as this harddrive popped up, *poof* the WB was now more
than a novelty or device for weaning ex-mac users, it became *desirable*.

REAL desirable. Before, I would religously remove all .info files
from every disk I owned. Now I have a shell script that creates
one if one doesnt exists so I can ``see'' the file by double
clicking on it via "more".


Summary: Hard drives are WORTH going into debt for, folks.

Also, if any of you out there are usung The C Shell with a supra drive, drop
me a line, I have some observations/questions.


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard