Need YOUR B150 config
I have two questions.
I've been experiencing very slow reads on a Bernoulli 150 cartridge that has
seen hundreds of files written, deleted, and rewritten over time. I've been
trying to identify the cause of the slow reads, and am now in the process of
locating a low-level device monitor, to allow me to see individual sector
requests; this may help me pinpoint my problem.
Question 1: DOSTrace.lha seems like a good candidate, but my LHA extractor (LX
1.03, from 1992) complains that "LX does not support level 2 headers". I wonder
what LHA program I should use to extract DOSTrace?
In addition, I wonder if I screwed something up a few months ago, when I
updated the HDToolbox drive parameters to the values read off the drive; for
the year until then, I'd formatted cartridges using a set of parameters that
came from, well, I can't remember. In the spring, I thought that since reading
the parameters off the drive gave a different set of values, the ones from the
drive should be more reliable and efficient than the ones previously stored, so
I updated the drive definition accordingly and reformatted the cartridge. I
don't know if this is what caused my problem, so here's my request:
Question 2: would anyone using a Bernoulli 150 kindly enter HDToolbox, and tell
me the drive parameters they see? It would be a great help in experimenting to
see if I can once again bring the carts up to speed. Thanks.
Blaq!