Faster directory listing possible?

[ChaosLord]

I have addbuffers Work: 1000 on my 32MB FFS A1200

1000 buffers = 512k

Addbuffers does speed things up noticeably.

But it is not as dramatic as FastCache or PowerCache or etc.

[ChaosLord]

Are you able to use more than one CF drive (I use MicroDrives, essentially the same, but it's really a hard drive in stead of flash memory)? I can only use one at a time, I really need both of them to work together.

What is it that is stopping you from using more than one "CF Drive" at a time?

AmigaOS supports a lot of drives.

The only way something could "stop you" from using multiple drives would be... a screwey hard drive controller?  Or a screwey driver?  Or ?


Addbuffers works with everything automatically without any problems.  I believe FastCache also works with everything automatically without any problems.

[ChaosLord]

Or I don't know why but it does happen with my A4000's IDE.  In fact, the CF card doesn't even work with a CDROM on the same cable.  This is a Sandisk 4 GB.

Its either a problem with the Adapter that you use, or a problem with the CF Card.

I have 3 devices on my A1200 IDE for 13 years without problem but I am cheating and using an IDEfix97 4-way adapter thingamajiggy to get faster speeds.

Countless ppl use 2 drives on A4000s and A1200s.

Its just that as soon as you try to use a CF card your chances of having problems go up dramatically.  Lots of ppl can't even get 1 CF Card all by itself to work.  Lots of strange bizarre problems.  I have read many threads where it is stated that many CF cards do not 100% conform to IDE specifications.