Gotek HXC Firmware Atari 520 STE- very slow to list

[pauljh]

Hi All,

I have a gotek with HXC firmware and have noticed is VERY slow to list directory contents, I first thought too many files in a directory so split all the files out to sub directories, but even to list just 24 directories (not their contents) takes a good 5 minutes... Is this normal?/

 

 

[retrobits]

I have the same setup and I'm not seeing the same slowness, although I think it should perform much faster than it currently does.

I was testing this today and I have all the pompey pirates (113 files) and automation images (2029 files) on a Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 16GB formatted Fat32.

I see the manager software clock for about 10 seconds between directories.

I tried grouping files in subfolders and even removing all the automation images to see if I could speed it up, but nothing improved the directory content loading.

As a comparison, my Atari 800 can list that number of files and navigate on an SIO2SD device in sub-second times.

So, I think its a little slow at 10 seconds -- annoying but still usable. 5 minutes is definitely not usable. Maybe try different USB sticks & disk formats?

We should probably start a thread about this in the HxC2001 support forum.

Edited March 13, 2016 by retrobits

[retrobits]

If anyone is wondering, the solution to my "10 second directory navigation" slowness problem was to just use the older version of the Atari ST HxC manager

http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/ST_Fileselector_1_9b.zip

 

Jeff let us know that the newer 2.x version attempts to sort the files which has some serious performance problems at this point.

 

I'm not sure if the OP has found a solution to his "5 minute" problem yet.