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In article <1996Feb27.195307.10070@scala.scala.com>, john.chang@scala.com wrote:

> In <neilo-2602962245010001@d50-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>,
neilo@m140.aone.net.au (Neil O'Rourke) writes:
> >>We have noticed a _huge_ increase in performance (empirically, we guess
> >around a 3x increase).  On the down side, running AmiFileSafe on a remote
> >playstation we hade a total disk failure that needed a reformat.  This
> >happened on 3 out of four test sited, so we no longer use it.
> 
> Hmm, well, I'll have to go bother "El Presidente" Dale Larson of Intangible
> Assets Manufacturing (IAM), the North American distributor of AFS, to loan
> me a copy and do some testing.
> 
> I can't say that I'll be able to do this real soon, as I'm very busy at the
> moment, but will try to schedule it in the near future.  It certainly sounds
> like there are some real performance advantages.
> 
> I find it odd that one of AFS's key features is the prevention of
> total disk failures, did not work in your application of InfoChannel.

You thought it odd??  We looked at AFS for this very reason!  We never had
a reasonable explanation for this, except that the failed units were
non-Segate drives (actually, I think they were Conner), and they developed
read/write errors.  I never had the time to look into the problem
properly, and the bosses at work got kinda gun-shy at spending more time
investigating the problem, especially when we could mandate that the
manufacturer use Segate drives, and have few problems anyway.

However, the playback of anims was much improved, but we noticed a
slowdown in the playback of diskanims.

Later,

Neil O'Rourke
neilo@m140.aone.net.au

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