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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Serious problem with Amiga 3000 drives
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.215225.5816@javelin.es.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 21:52:25 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.114128.1483@dayton.saic.com> <15690@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Feb4.160205.25221@javelin.es.com> <18568@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) writes:

>>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

>>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 :)

Alas, the Fujitsu and H-P drives were evaluation units, not my own. I
have to get by with the Wren III and Quantum 170. :-)

However if you have some gigabyte drives of your own, the WangDAT
(Digital Audio Tape format) tape drive is a nice companion. 1.3 gigabyte
capacity uncompressed, and up to 3 gigabytes with the drive's hardware
compression enabled. With compression on, it backed up 12 megabytes in
under 2 minutes using Tar and Marcus Wandel's TAPE: handler.
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