Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!nj From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Answer to StarDrive speed question Message-ID: Date: 16 Dec 90 03:59:46 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: /h/bair/nj/.organization Lines: 9 A few days ago, I asked if it was possible to get better speeds than 80k/sec from an FFS partition on a hard drive connected to my Amiga 1000 through a StarDrive SCSI controller. Thanks to all who responded and suggested that I choose a hardware interleave of 3 when low-level formatting my hard drive. After backing up and reformatting, I'm now getting 265k/sec reads and 207k/sec writes with FastMode on (according to DiskPerf). nj