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- From: Mark Harden <mark@harden.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: MaxTransfer
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 12:59:39 GMT
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- Bruce Lawson (brucel@mtrap.cts.com) wrote:
-
- : I'm hoping someone has "THE" answer to this problem I'm having. Let's say
- : I have a large archive that decompresses perfectly. Now, I copy it to
- : another partition, and the copy on the other partition no longer
- : decompresses without a file or two or three failing CRC.
- :
- : A friend suggested it might be a MaxTransfer setting that's causing it. I
- : use an A2091 with several drives of various size attached. Is there a
- : recommended value for MaxTransfer with the A2091 on an A2000?
- :
- : If you can help, please respond email (only) to brucel@mtrap.cts.com.
- : Thanks!
-
- From the independant AFS FAQ :-
-
- 23. What is MaxTransfer ?
-
- Some IDE drives have problems with high MaxTransfer values, they seem
- to "choke" on large blocks of data if they are sent by the controller
- in one gulp. SCSI drives should run with any MaxTransfer, I haven't
- had any problems with them.
-
- By the way, the MaxTransfer value is hardly important for the disk
- performance - a value of 0xFFFFFF means "16MB max in one transfer"
- while a value of 0xFFFF is still 64K. I once set it as low as 2K and
- the loss of speed was hardly noticable.
-
-
- 24. What value should MaxTransfer be ?
-
- IDE Drives - Try 0x1FE00. If files greater than 64K get corrupted
- then reduce it to 0xFE00.
-
- SCSI Drives - Use 0xFFFE00.
-
- It must also be divisable by the sector size (512) due to a bug in the
- WorkBench format code.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- You can test be copying files to see where it breaks. Typically 64K or 128K !
-
- I will probably start an argument but MaxTransfer doesn't affext speed as much
- as people think. It is certainly not worth risking your data !
-