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From: mattioli@TOOK.DEC.COM (John R. Mattioli)
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Subject: Re: IBM/SCSI
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Date: 1 Nov 89 21:07:41 GMT
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	All of this talk about the FD scsi controler is all well and good and I
myself wish I'd asked questions about a month ago.  Unfortunately, I assumed
that a company wouldn't sell me a "system" that didn't work well. 

	I now find that I have a scsi controler and drive (st02 controler and
80meg seagate drive).  I ran norton si on it (under dos) and the disk index (di)
number it returned was 0.6!  Someone PLEASE tell me I can do better by tweeking
my controler or my drive somehow!  Why spend all this money to get performence
like 28msec access time when the disk really isn't all that great after all? 

	What is the best thing for those of us with an st02 (or st01) to do?
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					John Mattioli
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