On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:50:30 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I am using the same hard drive as used on my 386. Only a 16 bit FAT, not
> 32 bit. My OS is Caldera DR-DOS, v. 3.02. Does the 16 bit FAT cause it
> to run much slower than it perhaps otherwise would with a 32 bit FAT?
Hi Sam;
The FAT shouldn't make any difference at all unless you had many, many
small files on a quite big disk. (512/528Mb) Then the cluster sizes would
be much larger with a 16 bit FAT (8k) and even if your file is only one
byte you still have to read the whole 8k to get to the next file.
Very likely you have a 2k cluster size on an HD that was used with a '386.
That said, maybe your HD speed is limiting the increase you are seeing.
Are you using a decent (512kb at least) HD cache ?
How many buffers ?
- Clarence Verge
- Still using Arachne V1.62 ....
