Defragger and SSD defrag ?

Wolf,

I have no idea how the disk drive handled these differences.

I know that my C64 "breadbox" stored the next sector number in the first two
byte of the current one. Hence it also returned just 254 bytes per sector.

When doing a sequential read it could therefore go and retrieve the next
sector while waiting for the "current sector OK, give me the next" signal.
Something which ofcourse wasn't possible when doing random access.

The only really "major" thing I did with that drive was to get it to emulate
subdirectories, I felt like quite something that it wanted to work for me.
:-)

The disk drive was a smart device, seen as destination and source of data
by the OS, not as resource to be managed.

Yup. And with the right instruction you could perform a drive-to-drive
copy, leaving your 'puter free for other stuff. Not that you could do much
without a drive, but thats a fully other problem.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser