#BlitzDisk
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Last nite a friend asked me to come over and help him out with a problem he
was having setting up the BlitzDisk program he received with his FastFonts
disk. We had no problem getting it to work on his floppies but were never
able to get it to work correctly on his HD. He has a CLtd 24 meg. When we
entered the command suggested in the manual: "Blitzdisk SCSI.device DIRONLY
NOCHIP" the program terminated with the error message "Bad Number Input".
After some experimentation we discovered that the program wanted a number
after the Blitzdisk command, i.e. "Blitzdisk 1000 SCSI.device DIRONLY NOCHIP"
even though the manual seems to indicate that this is not needed and defaults
to 100 if not given. Now txe`the program seems to work….almost. It only
seems to buffer some directories on the HD and not others. The root directory
has about 85 entries in it and there is another directory that has about 185
entries. As you switch around between the different directories and ram:
sometimes they seem to be buffered and sometimes not. Changing the size of
the buffer doesn't seem to have any effect. Is there a limit to the number
of files it can cache in a directory? Or are we doing somethin wrong? Thanks
for your help.