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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FFS speed.  Bytes per second or Bits per second?
Message-ID: <8802291738.AA06971@cory>
Date: 29 Feb 88 17:38:56 GMT
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:FFS CAN GO 600K BYTES PER SECOND ON READS FROM A CONNER 100MB SCSI DRIVE!!!!!
:There, now I feel better :-)  Really, it does go that fast, honest, would I
:lie to you?  This figure wasn't just plucked out of thin air, I really timed
:it over many test runs with large files.  Admittedly, the file was not fragged
:up but the disk was not empty either so header and extension block fetches
:caused some extraneous seeks.
:
:	Steve Beats
:
:PS.  You can carry on now, I just got off your desk :-)
:

	Yah, that's what I get for typing and sleeping at the same
	time.

	I WANT IT!  (Damn it, just when I thought my money was safe,
	yet another reason appears to get an A2000!)

					-Matt