Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!quimby From: quimby@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Quimby Pipple) Subject: Re: IDE hard drive pauses... sometimes. Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: madoka.its.rpi.edu Reply-To: quimby@mts.rpi.edu References: <1991Jun13.193634.24680@sarah.albany.edu> <1991Jun14.144313.3504@athena.mit.edu> <91166.100432H90SI@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1991Jun16.072011.790@beach.csulb.edu> Date: 16 Jun 91 09:45:30 GMT Lines: 11 I've seen this slowdown thing too. We were unable to determine the cause, the tech people we called seemed to think it indicated a bad drive, so we returned it. Since then we've been doing much more intensive disk timing tests on the IDE systems we sell. Quimby -- quimby@mts.rpi.edu, quimby@rpitsmts.bitnet