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From: cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cheng Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Quantum 105 ATLPS IDE Hard Drive Transfer Rate
Message-ID: <1991May14.065331.21615@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 12:53:31 GMT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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Recently, I bought a Quantum 105 ATLPS IDE hard drive from Griffin Computer
InC.  I successfully installed and set up the drive.  Everything works fine.
And it seems much faster than my old MFM ST-225.  However, I tested the
transfer rate of that drive.  It is surprisingly poor.  I installed the
"SMARTDRV.SYS" using 1024 K cache.  The transfer rate is just around
200K Byte/Second to 300K Byte/Second.  Is this normal for this kind of
drive?  I know a lot people have this kind of drive.  So I am asking if
something is wrong with the drive...

Thank you very much for your time in advance.

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