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Faster directory listing possible?
« on: June 15, 2013, 04:00:12 PM »
I've got my old 3.9 bb2 installation running again. It's on a 8GB microdrive that has multiple partitions.
One of the partitions contains a LOT of folders with WHDLoad games, each folder has a game in it. When I open this partition in workbench it takes a few minutes before the listing shows. In the meantime I can't do anything else.
This partition is either in FFS of SFS, I don't quite remember, but it takes so long. Is there a way to speed up the directory listing?
I remember from older installations there was a .fastdir file that contained the listing? Never seen that on 3.9 though.
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Re: Faster directory listing possible?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2013, 05:53:52 PM »
I do have a CyberSCSI MKII, but SCSI drives are noisy and expensive, that's why I'm using a microdrive currently.
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Re: Faster directory listing possible?
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2013, 09:47:06 PM »
I'll try all posibilities asap, my Multisync monitor is suffering from a broken cable, the cable is directly attached to the monitor so it's not possible to just take another cable :(
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Re: Faster directory listing possible?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2013, 12:48:50 PM »
Save images to memory was already enabled, I'll try the icon.library next for as far as I can work with a tft monitor that tells me NOT OPTIMAL RESOLUTION every 2 minutes.
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Re: Faster directory listing possible?
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2013, 11:34:46 PM »
The new icon.library is in fact *a lot* faster, in stead of minutes it "only" takes 30 seconds now. Only thing I did was change the icon.library, because images to other memory was already set.
It's still a bit of a wait, but not by far as long as before, this is managable.
If only I could connect 2x Microdrive to the thing. I can't :(
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Re: Faster directory listing possible?
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2013, 11:46:11 AM »
How do I increase the cache on that partition? AddBuffers?
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Re: Faster directory listing possible?
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2013, 12:58:15 PM »
Should I use like only FastCache or FastCache and AddBuffers together?
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Re: Faster directory listing possible?
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2013, 05:21:48 PM »
Quote from: JimDrew;738317
I use addbuffers 200 with FastCache.  Anything higher was just wasting memory.     I remember PowerCache, but I didn't use it for some reason... I don't think it worked as well with hardfiles as FastCache.

FastCache is a night and day difference with the 8GB CF drive.


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.
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