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Article #5176?big-board I bios defect
From: bridger
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1986 03:56
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1986 03:56
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Beta-testing for BackGrounder has turned up a serious defect in a Big Board I double-density 8" bios (19 June 83). It handles sector deblocking very inefficiently, resulting in a 20-fold slowdown in effective disk i/o when reading then writing the same random records! Does someone have a more recent version? Is the problem present in the BB II bioses also (the code contains lots of calls to "flush"). Is the author reachable? --bridger
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!bridger@RAND-UNIX.ARPA From: bridger@RAND-UNIX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: ?big-board I bios defect Message-ID: <3260@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 23:56:31 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.3260 Posted: Fri Aug 22 23:56:31 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Aug-86 06:42:22 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 11