From: Bill Currie <bcurrie AT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: _bios_disk() inefficiency
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 08:18:46 +1300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[bios disk]
> Even so, reading several 64b-long buffers one after the other will be
> faster with floppies, since you don't need to wait till the motor spins
> up.

Still can't do that even.  biosdisk (and any related names) are limited
to 18 sectors (9k).  For floppies, that will be (almost) the maximum
speed up possible, and for hard disks, it's as good as you're going to
get.  Doing this made one of my programs about 4 times faster.

> Anyway, all of this is academic, since the original message didn't even
> tell that a floppy was being read (as opposed to a hard disk).

Doesn't really matter, reading as much as possible at a time is still
your best bet.

Bill
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