Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!mips!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 386SX Performance/Coretest Message-ID: <1990Jun12.162243.25094@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 12 Jun 90 16:22:43 GMT References: Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA. Lines: 24 In article carpio@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (antonio carpio) writes: >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. I have a program I got off compuserve called hdtest that seems to work fairly well. I just installed an adaptec SCSI controller and I get >700Kbytes/sec. Now THAT is flying. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254