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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: BIOS overhead on Adaptec SCSI HD access?
Summary: Why does Norton Calibrate report 33ms of BIOS overhead?
Message-ID: <9353@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 90 20:55:30 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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I got the Norton Utilities 5.0 the other day, and ran Calibrate on my hard
drive, which I've never felt performed as well as it should.  Calibrate told
me that I have 33ms of BIOS overhead on top of my drive's 28ms access time.
This seems ridiculous to me; any comments?

My setup:

AMI Bios, September 88
Adaptec AHA1542A
Seagate ST296N
Zeos 386-20

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu