Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:39:02 07/01/99
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On July 01, 1999 at 17:35:27, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >Cannot suggest workaround - I don't know what ChessBase done with my code. >Original code allowed more than one directory to appear in TB search path, but >if there was a CD-ROM in that pass, it'll be searched, too (maybe TBs that are >absent on the HDD will be there). > >Eugene > I still recommend against using a CD like this. I burned a CD with only 3-4 piece files on it, and tried it on my 32x cd drive a while back. And it _absolutely killed_ the search... to the point where it would make horrible mistakes because it was searching so slowly. My 10K scsi drives have sub-5ms access times. CDs are _way_ slower than that. And slow things in the actual tree search are always bad news... My advice is to cough up 200 bucks, buy a 16 gig IDE UDMA disk, put all the compressed files on there, use the extra 10 gigs for whatever you want, and _avoid_ the CD slowdown. You can even by 8 gig IDE drives for 100 bucks or so now as they are being phased out and sold just to move them out... >On July 01, 1999 at 16:43:04, Ted Sutton wrote: > >>Yes, Eugene, this is exactly the my setup. >> I am referring to a situation, where I know that I am not going to use the >>tablebases in a particular position, but still want the path pointing to the CD, >>since I have not copied the tablebases to the HD. >> What do you think of this workaround (or could you suggest another one?): >>Set the path (in the *.ini file) to both the HD (first) and then the CD, and put >>only one tablebase file in the HD directory?
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