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From: chma@iceman.jcu.oz (Michael Antolovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI Evaluator etc
Keywords: My Quantum is slow !
Message-ID: <936@iceman.jcu.oz>
Date: 6 Sep 90 02:50:40 GMT
References: <935@iceman.jcu.oz>
Organization: JCUNQ, Townsville, Qld, Australia
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In article <935@iceman.jcu.oz>, chma@iceman.jcu.oz (Michael Antolovich) writes:
 Hi net,
 	Well I have a IIci with a 105 Meg Quantum (3rd party addition), and
 after someone else used it (they have one of thier own) they commented on the
 slowness of the hard-drive.  Well I found SCSI Evaluator V1.00 in the archives
 and it tells me that the drive has an average seek time of ~25ms (it sometimes
 gives 26 or 24).  From memory the drive we bought should be much better than
 this (it was meant to be cached as well !).  Does anyone know whether the
 results given by SCSI Evaluator V1.00 are reliable ?  Has anyone evaluated
 thier own IIci + 105 M 3rd party Quantum ?  This drive also seems to go through
 the annoying 'random seek grind' once in a while (it does it less these days).
 I'm considering sending the drive back (it's a long way though !), does anyone
 have any suggestions for further tests I could carry out ?
 				Thanks,
 				Michael
 
 PS e-mail is best sent to :-
 	chma@groper.jcu.edu.au   but  chma@iceman.jcu.edu.au  should work too.
 

PPS   The drive is Formated with Silverlining 5.18 (I new I'd forget something!)