Re: Apple Disk Server Beta. Need testers.

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jan 5, 2:46 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 1/5/2012 4:39 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
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> > On Jan 5, 2:21 pm, "Michael J. Mahon"<mjma...@aol.com>  wrote:
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> >>> 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.
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> >> For reliable operation, the motor should be started about a second
> >> before the disk is required to be up to speed.
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> >> -michael
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> >> NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
> >> Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
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> >> "The wastebasket is our most important design
> >> tool--and it's seriously underused."
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> > What about 10 seconds before?  Is more OK?
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> Well, yeah, you could just leave the blasted thing running... but you'd
> better be able to turn it back off again in case of failure.

1.  Turn after download, but before inflate
2.  If inflate fails, turn off before error message
3.  If inflate ok, write starts, end of write should power down motor,
right?

I am thinking that this will save about 5 seconds out of 3 minutes.
It may not be worth it.