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From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: CMS Drives
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 23:34:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 23:34:00 1987
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Oct 29 22:34:00 1987


Supposedly, the CMS drive is supposed to have more efficient firmware
than the Apple drive, making it incompatible with the Apple system
drivers.  My dealer's literature states the 80Mb CMS average seek time
is 26ms.  I've seen adds (MacWeek) that state the transfer rate is
exactly 1Mb/sec, fully saturating the SCSI port.

Can anyone confirm this?  Does anyone really know if this drive is
faster than Apple, and if so, how much so?  Does the apple backup
software (bundled w/Mac II) work with this drive?

Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois