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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Large amounts of memory in a A3000 (64 meg+)
Keywords: memory
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.153921.29107@javelin.es.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 15:39:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.214827.10775@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: blgardne%javelin@dsd.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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wewallac@watsol.waterloo.edu (Bill Wallace) writes:
>  Finally, does anyone have experience with large hard disks on
>an A3000?  I am talking about 1 Gb or larger hard disk.

I've run gigabyte drives by H-P and Fujitsu on the A3000. With DiskSpeed
3.1 the H-P hit 1.5 megabytes/second, and the Fujitsu 1.9 megabyes/sec.
Even running in high intensity mode with both DMA and CPU stress turned
didn't slow the results by more than 5-10%. Impressive performance!

The only problem I ran into is a bug in 2.02 that limits partitions to
less than 512 megabytes. I understand that this has already been fixed.
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