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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To seek or not to seek.
Message-ID: <171@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 05:25:22 GMT
References: <806@yugas.UUCP> <7078@chinet.chi.il.us> <838@cacilj.UUCP> <12297@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <12297@cup.portal.com> Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com writes:
>I wouldn't call the Atari's filing system "slow" if you ever dealt with a
>normal PC (4.77Mhz XT w/ standard Disk Controller), or with an Amiga (the
>ones I have access to have v. 1.2 of the os, and 1.3 is supposed to be
>faster).

Yes, under 1.3 it is considerably faster.  I just installed a controller
and disk combo today that gets over 655,000 bytes/sec on reads of 32 Kb or
more at a time.

The drive is a 3.5" 80 Mb Quantum.

-Fred