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#amiga 1200 & hard disks

    05-Sep-93 16:03:33
Fm: Fred Murray 73455,402
To: R. Simonsen/MicroBotics 75300,3665
Funny you should ask! I have a 1 meg animation file (Watch.anim) that I use for testing…. I have Hypercache off, buffers at 128 on each partition and maxtransfer is at 65024 for each partition. From DH1: to DH2: = 13.6 secs first try …. 14.5 secs 2nd try From DH1: to RAM: = 7.7 secs first try ….. 7.8 secs 2nd try From DH2: to DH1: = 13.3 secs first try ….. 9.7 secs 2nd try From DH2: to RAM: = 4.5 secs first try! ….. 4.6 secs 2nd try! From RAM: to DH1: = 6.8 secs first try ….. 6.8 secs 2nd try From RAM: to DH2: = 4.3 secs first try ….. 4.3 secs 2nd try!! I'm doing this from a WShell window which I happen to have a timer in my Wshell title bar. For some reason DH2: _now_ appears to be doing better! I'm going to check with Diskspeed now…. Using a 256k Word aligned buffer in fastram, dh2: creates and writes = 140k/sec reads are 180k/sec DH1: gets creates and writes about 155k/sec and reads are 185k/sec later!