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From: perry@well.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 questions
Message-ID: <4178@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 06:34:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 06:34:45 1987
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Reply-To: perry@well.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz)
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Summary: SCSI XFer rate Means Nothing

The rate at which a disk will squirt data to a controller is insignificant
(on the Amiga) compared  to  the  time  it takes for the drive to have the
data available and the time lost by within the o.s.

It is precisely here that the SDP will do its magic. A)  Replace  DOS. Run
the entire file system  code right  on  the  controller. B) Pre-Fetch most
data accesses.

Oh, by the way, if I am not mistaken, we use 3MByte per second SCSI chips.
But as I said, this doesn't  mean  anything for other peoples controllers. 
Ours is  the only  one which would  feel constrained  by  1.2  Mb/sec Xfer 
rate.

Perry Kivolowitz - ASDG Incorporated