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- From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 IDE is SLOWER THAN FLOPPY on writes, WHY???
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:12:16 GMT
- Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
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- In article <2181@vall.dsv.su.se>, matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
- |> Bernd Raschke (bdraschk@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:
- |>
- |> : a) Check how many buffers your hd has. You can do it by entering
- |> : "addbuffers dh0:" in the command line.
- |>
- |> Do you have to use HDToolBox in order to specify your buffers? How
- |> about an AddBuffers command in the Startup-Sequence? Just wondering.
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- You can use 'AddBuffers', too. But why ?
-
- |> : b) Some of the early A4000s were delivered with a production error,
- |> : the HD being formatted with OFS (= dog slow).
- |>
- |> Is there ANY way to check this out? If it's OFS, I mean.
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- Use Workbench's Information on your harddisk and look at the blocksize
- (488 = OFS, 512 = FFS).
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- Matthias Scheler tron@uni-paderborn.de
- University of Paderborn (Germany)
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