Re: Apple II Csa2 FAQs 9/9/1998 Zip Drive & Tape

[stever@gate.net (Steve Reeves)]

In article <1998091004500600.AAA14442@ladder01.news.aol.com>, Supertimer wrote:
>Rubywand, I don't know if you have tried this, but if I DON'T
>partition a Zip disk but instead simply format it from Finder
>using HFS on the GS, the volume seems a bit faster than
>if I partition it and use HFS.  I don't know why this is so.

Obviously part of the reason must be that the driver can skip the
logical-to-physical block address translation.  I doubt that this
by itself would create a noticeable difference in performance,
though, except maybe on an unaccelerated GS.  What speed is your
GS running at?

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Steve Reeves
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