Re: [MiNT] Kobold replacement for MiNT

[George Nakos <ggn@hol.gr>]

Hello Eero,

Monday, April 26, 2010, 9:44:45 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> On Monday 26 April 2010, George Nakos wrote:
>>  While copying, Kobold has a much more efficient way of reading/writing
>> the files, but there is a danger as I wrote in my first reply. In the
>> superfast mode, it reads and writes to the FAT directly. Which is fine
>> for floppies and old hard drivers, but I dunno what will happen in a big
>> modern partition.

> It's not about age of hard disk but about Kobold doing things behind
> the OS's back.  If OS (say HD driver) implements caching for the file system
> accesses/changes and program does direct access, guess how consistent
> your FAT will be...

If   you   read  my answer carefully, I don't mention about the age of
the drive.

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Best regards,
 George                            mailto:ggn@hol.gr