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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Starboard SCSI board woes. (slow as christmas)
Message-ID: <[206.6]comp.amiga;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 89 23:00:07 GMT
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>Response 5 of 5 (206) by silver at cup.portal.com on Mon 12 Jun 89 05:40
>[Jim B Howard]
>My drive *WAS* low level formatted with a value of 2, and I am
>using Amiga-Dos 1.3 and the FFS.  I still only get about 
>65k per second.  I have tried interleave of 3, and it doesnt change
>the speeds in any direction but down.

That performance SUCKS.

I regularly get 650K/second on IBM clones (ATs) using a track cache
controller.  What the hell is Commodore and these other manufacturer's doing
wrong if they can't even beat an ST506 (slow as a turtle) interface?!

And I thought that Amigas were faster than IBM's.... guess not when it comes
to disk performance.

I'm greatly disappointed.  Can others send or post their drive performance
figures for me?  I'd like to see what ELSE is out there.

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