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From: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard disk transfer rates
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Date: 25 Sep 90 05:55:17 GMT
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In article <1245@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) writes:
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>That's because of the read-ahead cache of the drive. As the name
>says it won't work with writes.

Sure, the Quantum has a 64k cache, but I certainly hope that a Quantum
is capable of better than 450k writes when all I've heard is how
a Quantum is one of the best low-end drives.  I also would hope that
a DMA controller like the 2091 is faster than a non-DMA GVP card
using a bloody slow Segate drive.  I'm not satisfied with the
64k cache being the only saving grace of the drive.  I guess I
could drop my Quantum onto his GVP card sometime, although
it would be one heck of a hassle with my parition setup.

Or is GVP compatible with the 2091's RDB?
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