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From: breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A590 Speed
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Date: 26 Mar 91 08:24:03 GMT
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Hi,

I have a A590 harddisk for almost a year now. I am quit happy with it,
when I compare it with floppies. It is only a little slow (150 Kb/s). 
It is still using the original drive (a 20MB WD 65ms). But that alone 
is not the reason for this low speed. A friend of mine has rewritten 
the software for his OMTI-controlled harddisk and doubled (!) the 
read-speed from 160 Kb/s to 340 Kb/s. I wonder if someone has also
rewritten his A590 software or is the slow speed due to the controller-
hardware. The SCSI-controller is capable of 600 Kb/s. How is the XT-
controller connected to the Amiga: i.e. what makes it so slow compared
to other cheap harddisks?

thanks in advance,

Erwin van Breemen