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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP! HPFS makes me yawn!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.201200.8897@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:12:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.215220.8218@news.columbia.edu> am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) writes:
- >Hi! I just got myself a Quantum Pro 105. It is the third HD in my system, and
- >runs off of an Adaptec 1542B. Since DOG can't handle more than two drives,
- >I formatted this thing as HPFS, b/c it's pointless to make it FAT. Now that
- >I've copied some of my programs to E:, like 3dmaze, Quattro Pro 3 and some
- >other stuff cluttering my C:, I've found that disk accesses take much
- >longer, like two or 3 times longer [for seeks] than under FAT. Am I doing
- >something wrong, or does HPFS have slow access but fast transfer? I haven't
- >noticed any real increase in transfer speed.
- >
- >Any help, pointers, CONFIG.SYS lines, etc will be most appreciated.
-
- please post your "IFS=" line from the top of CONFIG.SYS. Lazy writes
- should be on, and you should have sufficient cache allocated for it.
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