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From: charlie@csnz.co.nz (Charles Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help interpreting Coretest 2.8
Message-ID: <380@csnz.co.nz>
Date: 24 Jan 90 23:23:36 GMT
References: <3030003@hpkslx.HP.COM>
Reply-To: charlie@csnz.co.nz (Charles Lear)
Organization: Computer Sciences of New Zealand Limited, Wellington, NZ
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In article <fatangfatang> greg@hpkslx.HP.COM (Greggory Orsini) writes:
>I'm running a copy of CORETEST 28 from simtel on my 386 20MHz system with a 
>WD1006V-SR2 and a Maxtor 2190 (240megabyte, 18ms avg).
>It shows about 634kbytes/second but the track to track is 40ms.

I have run into similar figures on other drives.  My Miniscribe 3180 157Mb
ESDI drive is rated at 16ms but returns 28ms on Coretest.

Some people I have asked have indicated that a lot of disk manufacturers
quote average access times for a 32MB partition, not for the entire disk...
this is borne out by the people who maintain that a good way to improve
your average access time on a disk is to split it into smaller partitions.

I find that a good cure for your worried feelings is to have a large
glass of very good, very old port, and reflect on the millions of plebs who
have to put up with 68ms Seagate drives... says he with narrowed eyes,
chalking one up for himself!

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