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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Slow RA 90 disks on DECsystem 5XXX
Message-ID: <28662@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 05:48:23 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.194341.18284@bernina.ethz.ch>
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1990Dec12.194341.18284@bernina.ethz.ch>
karrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer) writes:
>We have 6 DEC RA 90 disks ...
>We are not impressed by their performance.

I will go *way* out on a limb and make the following claim:

	DEC have never produced a fast RA disk, with any setup.

It would be nice to see some counter-argument.  The newer RA series
drives *should* not be so slow; their physical characteristics are OK
(unlike the RA81).  Perhaps the problem is MSCP.
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