Re: HFS Intentionally Slow?

[fishern3485@cobra.uni.edu]

>  - while doing the mass data transfer, it writes blocks in REVERSE
>  (REVERSE!!!) order, eg.  blocks 200...300 are transferred in the order 300,
>  299, 298, 297, ......, 200. No chance for a driver to speedup things.

not being a GS/OS expert, I don't know if this applies, BUT, on the
Apple II drives, the interleave works FASTER if you access in reverse
order.  That's how DOS 3.3 boots up so fast as opposed to other DOS
reads. ("stock" DOS, not any of the (millions of) speeded up versions)

-- 
Nathan Fisher
  FISHERN3485@COBRA.UNI.EDU