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From:Nuno Berneaud
Date:30 Sep 2001 at 12:48:51
Subject:[amigactive] Re: Buffers

Hello Ken

On 30-Sep-01, you wrote:

>KW> You can always use more memory. Increase your hard drive buffers,
>KW> make more programs resident. There are many ways to use RAM to
>KW> speed up the overall operation of an Amiga. The last thing you
>KW> should use it for is to increase the numbers in the title bar.
>KW
>KW I thought about this and went to HDTools and changed my buffers in
>KW my settings. Workbench was on 80 and all the other 3 partitions were
>KW on 500
>KW
>KW I made them a 1000 what would be a good setting seeing I have 128
>KW fast ram, I use shapeshifter/netscape a lot so that does use a lot
>KW up.

I tried to use HDToolbox to increase my buffers but it doesn't really
save the new value.
HDInstTools is even worse. When I try to save it says I will lose all
data on the partitions!
Isn't it supposed to be possible to increase buffers without
re-formatting the partitions?

Bye,

Nuno

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