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Question: best performance of hard disk reading (Users)

posted by marcov, 22.07.2010, 05:55

> In a similar mindset if FAT is wasteful as we know in terms of size, rather
> than necessarily worrying about compressing FAT, etc depending on the
> particular situation if you can avoid the need to use FAT in the first
> place. The problem with systems like DOS is people tend to get
> conditioned, e..g. it is natural to think in terms of files, FAT. Which
> interestingly is exactly what Rugxulo picked up on, this very fact that
> often in the DOS world we are still thinking about FAT, files etc.

Afaik many bioses scan the partition table, and revert to alternate boot if no recognizable partition/filesystem scheme is found. This started somewhere in P-II,III times for general clones, but maybe earlier for funky big OEM machines.

Before I would use a raw format of the HD, I would first try to check if this wouldn't bring me more trouble. (it could be solved as easily as keeping a partitiontable and some base FAT structures though)

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• Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Pablo, 17.07.2010, 20:36 (Users)
  • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Laaca, 17.07.2010, 22:39
    • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Rugxulo, 18.07.2010, 02:01
      • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Arjay, 18.07.2010, 09:59
        • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Pablo, 19.07.2010, 09:24
          • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Rugxulo, 19.07.2010, 12:59
            • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Arjay, 19.07.2010, 16:24
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              • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - RayeR, 22.07.2010, 00:14
              • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - marcov, 22.07.2010, 05:55
                • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - Arjay, 22.07.2010, 08:19
  • Question: best performance of hard disk reading - DOS386, 23.07.2010, 07:05