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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk Questions / Silver Lining
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Date: 9 Nov 90 05:40:16 GMT
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In article <1275@ucl-cs.uucp> J.Pearce@cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:
>
>I used Sliver Lining to format the new Quantum and everything seems to be
>OK. However, it offers a choice of drivers and a test loop to choose the
>optimal read/write combination for your drive. I followed this procedure
>and rerun the SCSI Evaluator read/write tests and they had taken a
>decided turn for the worse. Have I done anything wrong or is there a
>problem with SCSI Evaluator or Silver Lining ?

I believe Quantum drives have a cache which will improve those statistics
noticably, assuming you use a driver which supports the cache.  Possibly
Silver Lining's do not.

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