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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: query: new disk drive for VAX
Message-ID: <23157@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 7 Oct 88 19:30:47 GMT
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In article <10209@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>Not true.  Maxtor offers a version of its drive which supports
>synchronous SCSI and claims 4MB/s transfers.  I do not believe it
>costs much (any?) more than the slower (15 Mb/s, I believe) ESDI version.

Ah, but is that 4 MB/s throughput, or just the rate it runs on
the synchronous SCSI? It's like the difference between a computer
with a 10 Mbit/s Ethernet and 85 Kbit/s throughput. The reason I
ask is because 4 MB/s sounds like a generic synch SCSI figure.

-- 
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Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com