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From: roeve@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Roevenich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI drive too slow?
Keywords: DELL 310, CONNOR
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Date: 7 Jan 91 10:23:27 GMT
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wilson@ix1.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson) writes:

>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 

Hi Sam,

Coretest is for the thrashcan if you use drives with built-in caches,
as ESDI and SCSI-Drives. Try to measure using a simple stopwatch... you
will be surprised. Gee, your disk is fast, isn't it...

Greetings
Michael

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