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From: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To seek or not to seek.
Message-ID: <838@cacilj.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 88 22:15:44 GMT
References: <806@yugas.UUCP> <7078@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Organization: CACI Products Company, La Jolla, CA
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In article <7078@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>
>Verrrry interesting.  A lot of us are noticing big high performance drives
>out there at prices that once bought smaller & slower drives.  

This brings up another question.  Do the faster seek rates REALLY help given
the atari's reputedly poor file system?  After all, why blow more money than
you need to on a fast disk?

Do any of you with 23ms access drives get a noticeable improvement over
a 65ms drive?  Obviously, given a fast file system you would... but does
TOS let you?

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