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From: carlson@scooter.UUCP (Joe Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: 386GT Adaptec SCSI performance :-(
Summary: Low disk throughput
Message-ID: <121@scooter.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 89 15:00:12 GMT
References: <1989Jul10.175106.11166@tapa.uucp>
Organization: Integrated Consulting, Pleasanton CA
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In article <1989Jul10.175106.11166@tapa.uucp>, larry@tapa.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
> 
> We recently put an ADAPTEC 1540A SCSI into a Compaq 386/20 as a second disk
>...... 
> 	disk		raw device	block device	large file
> 	SCSI		107		 57		 56

	The ~60 Kbyte/second looks a lot like read a block/skip a revolution/
read a block.... You might try changing the filesystem gap parameter.
[mkfs parameter].