by Well, as much as I love the performance of TurboDOS, I will not use it
until one matter is straightened out. I just added the original Tandem
drive from my SH204 to the Micropolis drive I had replaced it with. Now
both are merrily storing all the data I give to them off of the SH204
controller board. So I thought I would do some timings of TurboDOS/non-Turbo-
DOS. I copied the TeX sources from SCSI-1/LUN0/PARTf to SCSI-1/LUN1/PARTc
(actually f: to g:) and timed em. Took 2:34 sec with Beckemeyer's HD accel,
took 2:06 sec with TurboDOS. Except fsck tells me it's okay the long way and
that there is a free clustor smack in the middle of a file the fast way.
(oh...those should be MINUTES times, not seconds :-)
So, is this a problem with having two drives on one controller? Depending
on how much TurboDOS assumes about the hardware configuration, it may s*
the LUN number in its caching. Time to actually go through the code and
start replacing addresses with labels and adding comments.......Ughhh.
Also, I would not recommend using any disk repair utilities that directly
access the drives while using Turbodos. May really*things up if and when
Turbodos flushes its buffers.
Allen: Any way to force a program such as TurboDOS to flush it's buffers?
Write a desk acc to do it? (Add symbolic links to the next TOS!!)
G. Onufer