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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HELP! (Damaged data)
Message-ID: <5440030@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 89 18:35:15 GMT
References: <3475@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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| A rather tedious source of wear and tear on single disk-drive 1040ST's
| is the need to swap source and destination disks many times while copying
| a large file from one disk to another. It seems as if the ST uses a
| very small buffer space for file copying.
| 
| Does anyone know of a way to force the ST to use more of its internal
| RAM as buffer space during the file copying procedure so that disk-
| swapping would be cut down a bit ? 
| 

One technique I have used is to first copy to a RAM disk, then change the
disk and copy from RAM. 

But, now that I have Neodesk 2.0, I don't have to do this. Neodesk copies to
internal RAM before writing. This is a big time saver even with a hard disk!



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