Subject: Re: newfs'ing a large disk
To: Duncan Ferguson <d.ferguson@worc.ac.uk>
From: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/11/1997 16:31:35
Duncan Ferguson writes:
 > > The Powertec SCSI driver isn't the world's fastest. I hope it is going to get a
 > > bit of a speedup soon.
 > 
 > Any idea whether this will be part of the general advancements that 
 > may be added to the free tree within a month or so, or is the 
 > powertec driver part of the work done in peoples spare time?

Spare time I'm afraid. But there has been a little progress.

 > Just tried an fsck to check that the 9gb drive is ok and its taken 
 > over 4 minutes so far ;o)  ( i dont want to risk not doing fsck's 
 > during bootup yet 'cos i want to make sure i added it right...)

Cheers Scott

-- 
Scott Stevens, Network Services Group, Computer Centre, Imperial College
"You've reached that age, Listy.  When you're younger you can eat what
you like, drink what you like and still climb into your 26 inch waist
trousers and zip them closed.  Then you reach that age -- 24, 25 -- your
muscles give up, they wave a little white flag and then without any
warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard."       - Rimmer, Red Dwarf