Re: To seek or not to seek.

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From: HC Johnson
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1988 17:08

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Paul Close writes:
> Do the faster seek rates REALLY help given the atari's reputedly poor
> file system.

If you use fastfat, it removes the atari problem, leaving only the drive
to limit performance.

I have ~20 ms drives and they cook!

Howard Johnson
ATT-BL
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!lzaz!hcj
From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To seek or not to seek.
Summary: faster drives are faster if you use fastfat
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Date: 7 Dec 88 17:08:25 GMT
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