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From: jho@imada.ou.dk (Jens H. Ovesen)
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Subject: Re: R140 & ARM3 & SCSI
Keywords: R140 SCSI RISCix
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Date: 21 May 91 18:27:11 GMT
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rknight@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk (Roger Knight (B21)) writes:

>I bought an Acorn SCSI card for my R140 when they first came out and added
>a Seagate St1096 as the boot device for RISCix. However my tests showed the
>SCSI disc was exactly the same speed as the internal ST506 so I repartitioned
>it without a swap partition and booted it from the internal disc again!

Well, when it comes to SCSI the rule of speed is: the bigger the disc, the 
faster the transfer. The ST1096 is a 80MB, right? So you won't notice much 
difference in speed with that one. If you used say a 320MB, you certainly
would!

Jens.