Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!van-bc!questor!carpio From: carpio@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (antonio carpio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: 386SX Performance/Coretest Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 90 00:27:36 GMT Organization: The Questor Project Lines: 11 Thanks to A. Schmidel of Dallas and Tim of the U. of Denver for your comments on the performance of my 386SX. It is comforting to know that my Deico motherboard is considered high quality. Regading the data transfer rate of 460 Kb/sec on my IDE drive, which Schmeidel mentione was already "great" but could be around 600 if run optimally, I called the dealer who then checked with the supplier (it is a Miniscribe 80 MB IDE drive) who advised that Corest, while measuring data transfers on MFM and RLL control- lers adequately, does NOT measure IDE results propertly (IDE being relatively new). Coretest is reportedly coming up with a new version which will measure results from IDE drives propertly. Does this make sense? By the way, yes, I am happy with my set thus far.