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In article <memo.895245@cix.compulink.co.uk> amclintock@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:

>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...

>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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