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Article #39150Re: HELP! (Damaged data)
From: Andy Cassino
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 18:35
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 18:35
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| A rather tedious source of wear and tear on single disk-drive 1040ST's
| is the need to swap source and destination disks many times while copying
| a large file from one disk to another. It seems as if the ST uses a
| very small buffer space for file copying.
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| Does anyone know of a way to force the ST to use more of its internal
| RAM as buffer space during the file copying procedure so that disk-
| swapping would be cut down a bit ?
|
One technique I have used is to first copy to a RAM disk, then change the
disk and copy from RAM.
But, now that I have Neodesk 2.0, I don't have to do this. Neodesk copies to
internal RAM before writing. This is a big time saver even with a hard disk!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hplsla!andyc From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: HELP! (Damaged data) Message-ID: <5440030@hplsla.HP.COM> Date: 1 Jun 89 18:35:15 GMT References: <3475@ihlpm.ATT.COM> Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA Lines: 26