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- From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
- Subject: Re: Why does CHKDSK D: /F: 3 take 2 hours?
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- References: <1992Aug14.081307.18336@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:26:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.081307.18336@nuscc.nus.sg>
- swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram N (Dr)) writes:
-
- >Periodically, I do a CHKDSK of my HPFS partition (290 MB) from the
- >A: drive after booting up using the install diskettes. My IDE drive
- >is a MAxtor XT-4380E (330 MB, FDISK shows only 320). The motherboard
- >is Mylex 486/25 EISA, 8MB RAM, generic I/O card, WD SVGA card.
- >
- >After invoking CHKDSK, I see the program reading the HDD and see
- >25 % complete on screen. Thereafter, it is a slooooow crawl, at the
- >rate of 10 minutes/ 5%. I should mention that there is 200MB free
- >space on the drive. Previously, SCO ODT :-) was on the HDD. I did
- >the usual repartitoning and formatting using the OS/2 install program.
- >Should I have done a low-level format before I installed?
- >
- >Generally, OS/2 has been behaving well and the HPFS disk access is
- >ok (although of late, it seems to be slower in DOS sessions). My
- >SWAPPER file is usually around 5 Meg. And I believe that the
- >problem with CHKDSK is recent (I can't say for sure whether it
- >has always been this way;probably not).
- >
- >When I do a FDISK from OS/2 how should the table read? I have
- >a boot-manager setup, 30MB FAT C: Drive, the rest HPFS.
- >I am particularly interested in knowing the distinction(s) among
- >installable, bootable and startable partitions.
- >
- >Unlike the D drive, CHKDSK zips through the C drive. On the D
- >drive, the drive light seems to be on continuously, as CHKDSK moves
- >glacially. I should add that it fixes allocation problems before
- >the crawl.
- >
- >Someone, give me a clue.
- >
- >
- >Sriram [the sigless one]
- >
- I beleive it is a performance problem seen when partitions get over 100-150MB.
- I beleive IBM is working on this.
- Mike Long
- Iowa State University
-