Re: Apple Disk Server Beta. Need testers.

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmidt wrote:
> Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention: one speedup that ADT client 
> does (but not ADTPro - too lazy so far) is it starts the drive motor a 
> little while before it is needed.  That avoids the spin-up delay once a 
> full buffer is ready to write and lets you start writing much more 
> quickly.  So, during inflate, if there's a point where you're 
> "almost-done," one loop left to go or whatever, hit the motoron switch.

For reliable operation, the motor should be started about a second
before the disk is required to be up to speed.

-michael

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