by Gilbert Lefebvre

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Working in Site Publishing with OS/2 

Hi Carlos André!

I just read your comments on your web site last night and wanted tocome back to you with a few suggestions...

 I just read your comments on your web site last night and wanted tocome back to you with a few suggestions...

1- You may accelerate your boot times by supplying what DANIS506.ADD is looking for (your particular setting) such as IRQ, what is present on each channel and their characteristics such as PIO and DMA modes. It could help if you enter those parameter so that it does not have to search them all... If you use the COPY that I sent you, it will give some of them, the rest can be found with "diskinfo" (see photo above) with the different options.

2- About the speed and cache or HPFS386. By allowing 32MB for the cache,you are reducing the quantity of available memory for your programs and may end up swapping. There are settings available for copying your data to set intervals to disk if you are afraid of losing info from a crash.

The answer may be to get a faster disk... The new disks have improved a lot over the past few years and selecting a faster disk may provide a better answer than a software solution. I refer you to http://www.storagereview.com to see all kinds of disks in both SCSI and ATA platform. You may find your present disk tested by them. Have a look at the newest Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 40 test results and compare its results to the newest SCSI 10K rpm and then consider the cost vs performance results. You will see that the performance of the Maxtor is quite high especially when considering its reasonable cost.

You may say that you don't need 40GB of storage and you may be right but remember that there are other lesser capacity drives in the same series that offer identical performance. IOW, the 20GB model in the Diamond Max Plus 40 series offers the same performance as the 40GB drive. This particular drive may not yet be available in Brazil but should be in a short while.

Your present drive may have been tested by them in a higher capacity of the same model and you could compare those two drives side by side in their drive database. I would not be too surprised to see the new Maxtor offering 3X the performance of your present drive...

Hardware is a hobby for me and spend about 1.5 to 2 hours a day looking at new hardware. I have been particularly interested in hard drives for 12 years and keep up with what is happening. As for the SCSI vs ATA debate, I think most will be happy with ATA because there are high performance ATA drives presently and they are much better priced than SCSI drives. The SCSI drives would be better suited in an environment where many small records are regularly accessed such as in a database server. For most of us that load programs that are often in the multi-megabytes range, the ATA drive is a better choice when one chooses an adequate model... One should not just buy what the local hardware store proposes as they often are trying to get rid of older drives to make space for the newer ones...

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