| From: | Jonathan Adamczewski |
| Date: | 24 May 2000 at 12:30:16 |
| Subject: | Re: harddrive stuff |
On Wed, 24 May 2000, mark krawczuk wrote:
> hello,
> i have a A1200 2megchip 64meg fast, 4.3 and 8.4 gig hdds
> (powerflyer).
> using the powerflyer i have modes pio 5 for the cdrom,both hdds and pio3 for
> my cd rewriter, if i try to increase pio mode 3 to 4 or 5 it will not
> mount the cd rewriter, should i leave it like this or make them all equal
> to pio 3?
dunno...
>
> what would be a good number of buffers to use in hd tool box for each
> partition?
as many as you want to throw at them.
> what should i set the mask and max transfer to in each partition?
mask - dunno
maxtransfer 0x01fe00 (should be default)
> the file system block size is set to 1024 in each partition, is this ok?
yep
> with boing bag 1 is there any thing to change /readjust after installing
> it?
can't remember - read the faq
> should i use directory cache in hd tool box?
*no*!!! (it will slow your drives down (fractionally)
Jonathan.
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