Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: To seek or not to seek. Summary: The man said something VERY provocative Message-ID: <7078@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 4 Dec 88 21:11:02 GMT References: <806@yugas.UUCP> Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 25 In article <806@yugas.UUCP>, julius@yugas.UUCP (Julius OKLAMCAK) writes: (As a joking aside in a discussion of disk drives) > > What I want is one of those 1.2 gigabyte Priams with sub-18 millisecond > seek times. ;-) > > Julius Oklamcak > Atari (Canada) Corp. Verrrry interesting. A lot of us are noticing big high performance drives out there at prices that once bought smaller & slower drives. Since we've been told that there are compelling reasons to limit TOS to partitions no larger than 16 meg, and there are limits to the number of drive partitions available at one time, what are the possibilities? Can a replacement file system be constructed as an optional add-on? (Thought inspired by contemplation of the MINIX file system, which runs as a user task). How about ESDI controllers: is it possible (and if possible, is it feasible) to put one on the DMA port of an ST? How about the expansion bus of a MEGA? If the TOS file system is a given, what about something like the programs which now select desk accessories and auto folder programs at boot time---something that selects which disk partitions from a much larger disk will be active for this session? I'm not volunteering to do any of this; no guarantees what's possible, but it's certainly beyond me. But maybe someone out there...