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In article <1h2up3INNncc@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, csudp@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R E Broadley) writes:
> I have an A5000 with R3.0. I was told to set my adfsbuffers to 0K due to a bug
> in the OS, but this caused floppy disk read/write to be much too slow. What
> should I have my adfsbuffers set to?
> 
> Also, writing to a PC format disk is very slow. Might have have something
> incorrectly configured which is causing this?

   Yes the slowness is due to ADFSBuffers not being configured. However if
your machine has a hard drive (and I have yet to hear of an A5000 without one)
*DO NOT* configure ADFSBuffers on! There is a bug in the RO3.00 implementation
of ADFSBuffers that causes hard drive access' to deliver random Address
Exceptions, errors and occasionally corrupt freespace maps.

   Because the errors are random you will have a hard time tracking it down
if you aren't aware of this problem.

   What this means is that you will have to live with slow floppy access' till
you upgrade to RO3.1 which has that problem cured. (Mind you it has a nice
new one just for fun. Thankfully it is only a real problem when low 8- buffers
are configured.)

   Philip