Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:57:55 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 12:50:53, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>Use them for studies in endgame positions. Do not use them to play games. Your >>program will play worse, not better. There are too many of them missing. Once >>they are complete, you will want to use a very, very fast striped disk set. > >Would you explain exactly what the Fast striped disk is? It's a set of disks. The data is laid down in stripes on separate disks. In that way, when you read data, it comes in parallel from many different sources. In this way (with fast/wide SCSI) you get the maximum possible disk throughput. >I had the 3,4 and 5 man Tablebases on a drive with 8.2 ms seek (Seagate )(IDE) >on an 800Mhz Athlon and then when i got my 1Ghz and put the Tablebases on a >slightly slower Maxtor (8.5~ or so ms) Fritz didn't solve all the same positions >at a faster time in the endgame (MES ECE etc.) Quite a few it took many more >seconds which doesn't make any sense so i figure the seek time couldn't possible >account for this would RPM's cause this or a drive being >ATA 66 or 100, or what about cache? > >The Seagate has 2MB of cache not sure about the Maxtor , the Maxtor is ATA 100 >the Seagate is not. Pretty strange
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