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- From: flex@kuai.se (Anders Karlsson)
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- Subject: Iomega ZIP drive and AFS
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 19:41:53
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- In a message of 19 Mar 96 Mark Marin wrote to :
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- MM> Great! I ordered AFS Pro last night. I didn't know if the boot
- MM> partition still had to be FFS, or if you could make it AFS too. Nice to
- MM> hear all my hard drives and Bernoulli drives can be AFS!
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- Since my controller don't support RDB I had to make a boot partition.
- I really think that it sucks. :( But that was all I could afford.
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- MM> How about floppies? Can you use AFS on them if you have it installed on
- MM> your system?
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- Yes. I use almost always AFS on my floppies. They get amazingly fast. =)
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- MM> Does it leave little free CPU time for other tasks? I hear that it
- MM> tends to hog the CPU, and I wondered if this made Serial device
- MM> problems (downloading).
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- Hmm.. I'm a lot out on the net, downloading/uploading stuff and haven't
- seen any of that. I have a 030/32.
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- MM> Anybody have a clue how compatible Emplant is with it? Can it be used
- MM> in place of FFS on an Amiga partition set up to act as an IBM or Mac
- MM> hard drive?
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- No idea. If it works with FFS, it probably should work with AFS.
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- Anders Karlsson Dedicated Amiga User.
- flex@kuai.se PGP-key available on request.
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