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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EISA Disk Controller from IBM
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.223932.2490@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 22:39:32 GMT
References: <1990Jun12.152437.18467@vicom.com>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <1990Jun12.152437.18467@vicom.com> tim@vicom.com (Tim Richardson) writes:
>
>Is anyone currently using the new ESIA bus interface disk controller
>from IBM... the one which their literature claims supports over 16Mbytes
>per second?  I'd like to correspond with anyone who is using it.
>Pls reply directly to:
>
 The problem here is that no disks are available that run that fast. The
fastest commercially available disks are dual headed IPI-2 drives that can
presently achieve 6Mb/s


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