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From: tenny@ootool.dec.com (Dave Tenny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Do all NeXT floppy drives create throughput bottlenecks?
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.124814.28771@engage.pko.dec.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 12:44:27 GMT
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I have the DIT CubeFloppy 2.9 external floppy drive.
I've noticed that whenever I use it, in any way, that my system
response is thouroughly degraded.  I don't care about the overall
speed of floppy data transfer.  It's fine.  But when the floppy is being
used, my 68040 system acts more sluggish than my 68000 based computer
next to it.  It's so slow it's hard to edit.  Emacs takes forever to
fire up, and things like key repeat are very slow.  

This problem doesn't happy when the OD or hard disk are being utilized.
Is the problem from:

a) my floppy drive?
b) my SCSI controller?
c) other

Dave