[Coco] megaread

[Boisy G. Pitre]

I looked closer at the megaread source and it appears that last year Bob Devries made a change to allow you to pass a number on the command line to alter the number of 1K blocks that are read.  The default is 1024 1K blocks (1MB) but you can apparently read 2MB by doing this:

megaread 2048

I've made and committed some changes to the source file to allow one to easily adjust the read size from 1024 to another value.  I've also added acquiring start and end times, though the algorithm for finding the difference between these two times has yet to be done.
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On May 21, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 10:27 PM 5/21/2010, you wrote:
>> Can somebody nicely tell me if the megaread command is reading in any other pattern than 1 sector increments?
>> If it's not, then Houston we have a problem.  The problem would be that deblocking to increase speed won't be realized during such a test.
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> Ok, for starters, using code that will be optimized more, I've got a 78s megaread on the newest Drive Pak driver for OS-9/NitrOS-9 Level II
> 
> I doubt 32 more seconds can be squeezed out......  but I'll try   ;)
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