Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sigma From: sigma@obee.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 550Kb/sec on IDE ST1144A??? Message-ID: Date: 9 May 91 00:12:04 GMT References: <1991May8.144034.4330@hollie.rdg.dec.com> <22682@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: obee.ipl.rpi.edu rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes: >> I purchased from a local dealer at a computer show, and when I called >>him about this problem, he said that he had never seen IDE drives do much >>more than 550Kb/sec. >The dealer is either inexperienced or a liar. I have almost never >seen a non-tiny one (80 MB or more) do *less* then 700 KB/sec in a 386 >machine, and I've seen plenty of them. This depends enormously on how you measure transfer rate! CoreTest 2.92 or whatever the latest is reports my CP-3204F IDE drive at 1136 Kb/sec. This is in a noncache 386/25. But CheckIt! reports 546 Kb/sec. No other program tells me anything useful. All I need to know is that the drive is FAST, especially with a 3Mb cache. -- Kevin Martin sigma@ipl.rpi.edu "Can I kiss one of the bridesmaids instead?"