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From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Serious problem with Amiga 3000 drives
Message-ID: <18568@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 01:36:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.114128.1483@dayton.saic.com> <15690@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Feb4.160205.25221@javelin.es.com>
Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb4.160205.25221@javelin.es.com> blgardne%javelin@dsd.es.com writes:
>bryant@milton.u.washington.edu (Jonathan Woolsey) writes:
>
>>What is the maximum sustained transfer rate of the
>>Amiga 3000's SCSI controller?  I am thinking of
>>buying this 700 MB hard drive. . . :) 
>
>I've measured 1.9 megabytes/second on the A3000 with a Fujitsu 1.2
>gigabyte drive. This was measured with DiskSpeed 3.1, and using high
>intensity with DMA and CPU stress modes had nearly no effect on the
>transfer rate. I think it's safe to say that the A3000's controller is
>faster than any drive you'll run into.
>
>By comparison: a CDC Wren III got 0.9 megabytes/sec, a Quantum 170S
>measured 1.05 megabytes/sec, and an H-P 1 gigabyte drive gave 1.5
>megabytes/sec.

since you're done testing that 1.5G drive, i'll be happy to give it
further tests :)

>-- 
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