[iyonix-support] Re: Slow external drive

In article <Marcel-1.53-0225132646-f7fpErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I might try this; however I can only meet one of these requirements
(only small part of disc will be used). I was going to contact you
over this - I notice you stock external USB drives but I assume the
same boot-up times apply to these as well.

> 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?

Out of my depth on this!

Regards

Richard

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