Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!aplcen!haven!umd5!matthews
From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ICD RateHD
Message-ID: <6177@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 18:03:59 GMT
References: <9002212030.aa00488@benjamin.Cs.Bham.AC.UK>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <9002212030.aa00488@benjamin.Cs.Bham.AC.UK> RiddCJ@computer-science.birmingham.ac.UK (Chris Ridd) writes:
[stuff deleted for inews's sake]
>my root partition (only about 4Megs) and ran it again.  This time, the access
>time was only about 36ms!  Has DLII (the defragger used) done something
>unexpected to my drive, or has RateHD gone doolally?
>
>-- Chris Ridd, Computer Science, Birmingham Uni, UK -- RiddCJ@Cs.Bham.Ac.Uk --

RateHD's results are not always constant.  The defragger did not make any dif-
ference, as RATEHD goes to low-level sector seeking, totally ignoring GEMDOS.
Try running it several times and see what happens.

I doubt DLII could change any hardware... :-)

Mike