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From: FILLMORE@EMRCAN.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A-Max II with GVP hard disk support
Message-ID: <9009170351.AA24186@lilac.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 90 04:54:00 GMT
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I finally got a chance to configure a 10 meg partition on my GVP 80Q hardcard
to test the hard disk support in A-Max II.  Everything went perfectly,
including installation of the new FaastROM SCSI driver from GVP (which a
speeds up disk I/O by 20-30%).  I downloaded a couple of disk I/O tests
from Bix and they seemed to work fine - I'm going to compare the results with
a Mac SE/30 at work.  One of the tests was SCSI Evaluator 1.04 which worked
perfectly when told to use the Mac driver.  The read test came up with a value
of 1200 Kbits/sec (150Kbytes/sec), which is quite a bit slower than the value
reported by DiskSpeed 3.1 under AmigaDOS - about 600Kbytes/sec.  It's probably
not a fair comparison.  Does anyone have a disk test that runs under both
AmigaDOS and the Mac OS?

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