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- Subject: Re: Diff between OS 3 and 3.1?
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 23:43:23 GMT
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- In article <1146.6626T692T1721@midland.co.nz> jsev@midland.co.nz (John Severinsen) writes:
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- > >: : |However, NEVER use DC-FFS for hard drives. It is a feature
- > >: : |under 3.1 that just destroyed my Workbench partition!
- >
- > >I've had to re-format a HD trashed partition twice.
- > >Isn't DC-FFS safe?
- >
- > I have used DC-FFS since I have had my A4000 (over 2 years now) and have NEVER
- > had to reformat my hard drives (I have 4 partitions using it).
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- FYI: A quote from the AmigaDOS 3.1 manual (pages 7-23 and 7-24)
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- "Using the directory caching for floppy disks and systems with slow hard
- drives speeds listings and Workbench window opening. Directory caching is not
- useful on systems with fast hard drives."
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- So, unless you are using a Seacrate ST-138N (very old and slow), you are
- just wasting sectors with the dir-cache option enabled. I have heard from
- numerous sources (AmiWorld, Amiga Computing...) that you should never use
- dir-caching with hard drives, because of the resons brought up here. l8er
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- Jason.D.Neus@UWRF.EDU Amiga 2000 w/GVP SCSI/68030
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