Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!ncsugn!emigh From: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Bernoulli Box Question Message-ID: <3996@ncsugn.ncsu.edu> Date: 16 May 88 16:26:13 GMT References: <5013@ecsvax.UUCP> <520@catlabs.UUCP> Reply-To: emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh) Organization: Genetics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC USA Lines: 40 Distribution: Organization: Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Keywords: In article <5013@ecsvax.UUCP> burgin@ecsvax.UUCP (Robert Burgin) writes: > >Has anyone used a Bernoulli box with an AT or AT-level machine? >With what results? Any problems? > >I get mixed signals through the grapevine - some say the Bernoulli >box is troublesome; some say it's trouble free. I have had an internal Bernoulli for a couple of months now. Others in my department have had them for several years. We have had very little trouble with them in the course of that time -- only one got here DOA, and that was replaced immediately. I have no idea about the speed of the disks. I have a standard IBM/AT with the old 20 MB hard disk. When I run a program like NORTON's DiskTest (which reads all the sectors on the disk) the Bernoulli runs at about twice the speed. The big slowdown is that Bernoulli unloads the heads after about 5 seconds of idle time (a huge "CLUNK" when doing so). I use T3 for technical word processing. The program uses lots of overlays, etc, and is constantly reading from the disk. T3 does not work well on the Bernoulli, as it usually unloads the head between disk accesses -- thus slowing it down when it finally does read the disk (not to mention all those "CLUNK"s). It is great for backup, for exchanging large amounts of data between machines, etc. I have also put some LARGE programs (such as PC-SAS, taking up some 10MB of disk space) on a Bernoulli and run them from there. The newer Bernoulli's come with a program BBACKIT for backing up Bernoulli's. It is a great little program -- and makes backing up a single Bernoulli quite easy. -- Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC uucp: mcnc!ncsuvx!ncsugn!emigh internet: emigh%ncsugn.ncsu.edu BITNET: NEMIGH@TUCC @ncsuvx.ncsu.edu:emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu