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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: WANGTEK 5150 PROBLEM
Message-ID: <3451@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 91 22:51:56 GMT
References: <199@picker.Picker.COM> <1991Mar09.063828.9488@bluemoon.uucp> <1991Mar11.012145.5135@nstar.rn.com> <1991Mar12.205232.3927@bluemoon.uucp>
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In article <1991Mar12.205232.3927@bluemoon.uucp> grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) writes:

|  I see a little over (6-6.5) megs per minute, which I consider to be
| pretty good on this class of machine (ISA 25 Mhz 486, 1542B handling
| the WREN 6 and 7 drives and the Wangtek 5150ES). That is much better
| than the @1 meg per minute I saw when I had an Archive on a separate
| controller (ISA is limiting, don'cha know...).

  I see about 5MB/min on Archive or Wangtek with a typically fragmented
f/s, using Xenix or ODT on a 486 at 16 or 25 MHz. I get over 6 if I have
an unfragmented f/s. Both systems are ISA, so I don't see any bottleneck there.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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