Re: Apple Disk Server Beta. Need testers.

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jan 5, 11:45 am, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> 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.

I'll look into it.

> Surely, killing all apps would stop that from happening?  I didn't do it
> last night, but I can start out by killing all-but-Safari.

Alerts happen without without the apps running.  I can disable all
alerts with a single switch, but it is a different switch for mail.

> Right, I figured you'd just create two files and send the one that the
> user selects... it could be as brain-dead as "Disk A (no format)" and
> "Disk A" in the selection list.  Or have two lists.

Yep.  I'll try to add this weekend.

> Happy to help.  This is cool stuff.

Thank you very much.