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- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Zip Drive
- Message-ID: <DMEt51.EEL@actrix.gen.nz>
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- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:19:48 GMT
- References: <9602011041.AA0016s@spikings.demon.co.uk> <DM5I7q.Fv0@actrix.gen.nz> <DMB0JI.1st@aston.ac.uk>
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- In article <DMB0JI.1st@aston.ac.uk>, Paul Copsey <copseypl@aston.ac.uk> wrote:
- >
- > Having used a Zip via the Blizzard SCSI board, I can tell you that access is
- > still bad to small files, but due to the nature of the board, it doesn`t
- > steal processor time like the squirrel will.
-
- I did a comprehensive test on my ZIP drive after posting this (I would
- have done it before, but I have to reboot to get accurate CPU figures),
- and it's worse than I thought, even on an A1200-030/50 you have 0% CPU
- time free while accessing the ZIP drive. It also showed than on small
- files the ZIP drive wouldn't be much faster than a floppy disk!
-
- > One thing that I find useful is using a disk caching program (assuming you
- > have some free memory to allocate to it) which greatly improves the speed,
-
- Any thoughts on a good caching program to use? I use Fastcache on my
- harddisk, but it crashed when I tried it with the ZIP drive.
-
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