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- From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
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- Subject: Re: Hard Disc Prices AGAIN!
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- References: <memo.895245@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: The Serial Port
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:17:26 +0000
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- In article <memo.895245@cix.compulink.co.uk> amclintock@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
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- >In-Reply-To: <727580969snz@cryton.demon.co.uk> altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo
- > Fiennes)
- >
- >Hard Disk Whinge
- >I don't like my IDE drive/controller
- >which I bought from ICS.
- >
- >1) 25second boot up time (with RiscOs2)
- some other IDE cards do this (DT software?)... I can't see a reason myself,
- most IDE drives become ready from powerup within 5-10 seconds max.
-
- >2) window bugs in filer, paths longer
- > than 40 chars (or so) cause windows larger
- > than they need to be. (big gaps to the right)
- > Or perhaps this is a riscos bug.
- That's RISC OS...
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- >3) The occasional bad drive error.
- That's the drive?
- >
- >Does anyone know why the "*map" command
- >fills my screen with bits of free space.
- >Shouldn't it all be in one continuous block?
- >*compact reduces it a bit...
- There's a maximum free chunk size, but you don't see it often (empty, big
- disks.. it's something like 16mb chunks?), but there are always 'bits'
- of free space. *compact doesn't compact any more when some oscure formula
- works out that it's not worth the hassle (chunks big enough already?
- not too many chunks?)
-
- Hugo
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