Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Two Hard Disk Controllers in One Machine Summary: So fix it! Message-ID: <1485@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 26 Oct 89 13:40:58 GMT References: <1092.25455B8D@busker.FIDONET.ORG> <2780@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 16 In article <2780@hydra.gatech.EDU>, bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) writes: | All in all, I'm quite disapointed in my system. The ST296N has gotten a lot | coverage recently as to its poor performance - It deserves it! The WD | FASST-ATXT card might be faster without the device driver, but it sure stinks | with it. I don't blame you for being upset by that performance, but I think the device drive is to blame. People were unhappy with 400-500kb/s when they knew they might have double that. 56kb/s is not acceptable. Time for a new drive or something! -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon