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From: wilson@ix1.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ESDI drive too slow?
Keywords: DELL 310, CONNOR
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Date: 5 Jan 91 20:22:09 GMT
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I have a Dell 310 (20Mhz 386, 32Kb cache) with a connor 105 Mb drive,
and it seems the throughput to the drive might be slower than it should
be.  Coretst reports that track-track seeks are ~23Ms which is fine, but 
the tranfer rate is around 296 Kb/sec.  Does that sound right?  I am
running I/O intensive programs and right now, I/O seems to be the real
bottleneck.  The drive seems slower than my Seagate RLL 277 to me.

Sam Wilson 


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  Samuel M. Wilson                         wilson@ix1.cc.utexas.edu
  Department of Anthropology            University of Texas, Austin