At 06:27 �� 14/4/2002, Tony Firshman wrote: >Of course, there is fixed QL processing time here as well. >This means that the actual physical read from RomDisq is, in percentage >terms, even better. >In my measurements, I found RomDisq read at 2mbyte per second. >What is the physical read speed of CF and HD I wonder?
On a QL or on a PC? The CF readers can go up to 33 Mbps guaranteed and the HDDs well depends on the machine :-) Some up to 133Mbps (like the 80gig Maxtor that I have on the Aurora :-) Guess how long it took to format all the partitions :-) >To test, I copied a 1mb file a 100 times to ramdisk. To ensure slave >blocks had minimal effect, I loaded first to ram, and then did >ALCHP(free_memory - 2000) - or some similar value to 2000 until the >following would run: > >FOR j= 1 to 100:COPY_O rom1_file to ram1_file > >I will provide the list with more "scientific" results once I perform > >them (soon I hope :-) >Above method might be a better way - it eliminates the fixed processing >time. Okay good idea, I'll do it and get back to you :-) Phoebus
