Re: Manager dialog slowdown question

[Robert L Booker <rbooker@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

On 2 May 1995, Bill North wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950430110102.28550A-100000@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
> Robert L Booker, rbooker@darkwing.uoregon.edu writes:
> >for now, i am sacrificing small system icons for 
> >speed, as well as for kangaroo's many benefits (no contest).  i 
> >enthusiastically recommend kangaroo, especially if you are using the 
> >manager with system 6.01.  --robb booker
> 
> You must not be using any removable SCSI drives (syquest,
> floptical, zip, etc) or have some SCSI card other than the
> APPLE HS that fixes the problem, because:
> 
> Kangaroo goes bonkers if you switch a syquest cartridge and
> does the endless polling of all devices for every entry in
> the dialog. 3 tries per entry * # entries in dialog * # online
> devices can quickly drive you mad.
> 
> 
correct; i am not.  my hard drive is not of the removable type, and my 
scsi card is a ramfast.  i do not know if this card would correct the 
problem you mention if i did have a removable scsi device.  i wonder.  
but while i am disappointed to find that kangaroo's applicability to 
the manager/6.01 problem is more limited than i was aware, there must be 
many users without the setup you describe who would be greatly relieved 
to regain that lost speed in file dialogue boxes.  kangaroo can hop 
freely and fast where previously there was quicksand.  --robb booker