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

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

stever@gate.net (Steve Reeves) wrote:

>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?

My GS is running at 12.5Mhz, but I still notice the improvement.

I use the Apple High Speed SCSI card.

So THAT's what has been happening.  It is simpler from the
computer's point of view to access an unpartitioned disk!