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From: USERQ0QM@UALTAMTS.BITNET (Michael Kwan)
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Date: 2 Jan 89 10:03:24 GMT
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Subject: Fatspeed help

I am posting this for a friend, so please don't get mad at me

Well 32 meg partitions can be done... and what more is GEMDOS will support
it as I have tried it with the old TOS and Mega TOS 1.2....

The Supra h/d utilities will allow you to format up a hard drive with
partition sizes up to 32 megs (maybe even more, i havent tried)....

Now you may say "Whats the Big Deal about having 32 meg partitions?", Well
as you may know, GEMDOS presently will only allow you to have a maximum
of 14 hard drive partitions....

What this means is that a maximum of 14 x 16 megs = 224 megs.... The
maximum amount of hard drive storage under GEMDOS is 224 megs.... But
since with the Supra Utils you can now go up to 32 meg partitions, this
means the maximum hard drive storage addressable is doubled now to
448 megs..!

Now for the snag...  anyone who has fiddled with h/d's will quickly
notice how much it slows down when a partition fills up...  Now with
partitions at 32 megs, this slow down is incredible.... It gets to be
slower than a floppy !!

Speed up prgs like FATSPEED have really helped to alleviate this problem..

But unfortunately FATSPEED does not work with partitions bigger than 16
meg.....

What I need is for the author or someone to Rewrite FATSPEED so that it
will address 32 meg partitions, thereby eliminating the slow-down
problem...

Anyone out there with any ideas????

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