[iyonix-support] Re: Slow external drive

On Sun 24 Feb, Richard Ashbery wrote:
> 
> My external 40GB USB drive takes 1 min 45 secs to initialise. Is there
> any way of speeding this up.

If most of your files are large or you are expecting to use only a small
part of it's capacity, you could double the size of the LFAU. This should 
halve the boot time.

In an ideal world the OS would be changed to not read single sectors of the
map at a time! I have no idea how difficult the change would be.

or could USB read ahead?
If yes would that help?

Chris Evans

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