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From: cheung@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Wilson Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: FFS
Keywords: Where's the speed gain?
Message-ID: <2114@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>
Date: 17 Jan 89 06:07:48 GMT
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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	Well, I finally after spending a whole day backing up and reformatting
my hard disk (not to mention competely trashing a 40 meg drive) I finally 
got the FFS working on a ST225 with an Expansion Technologies ST506 hard
card.  And in eager anticipation I click on my Scribble! wordprocessor, the
same program that took 7 seconds to load under the old system takes-- hold
my breath-- 7 seconds to load under FFS.  Whoopee!
	Under what conditions will FFS afford you no speed gain?  Would
I gain some speed if I changed the interleave in the high level format?
You start out with a hard drive that Seagate strictly states must be
operated at 5 Mbits/sec for proper operation, and somewhere in between 
we drop to under 20kbytes/sec; come on!



					Wilson Cheung