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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CRETIN MANOR MAIL
Message-ID: <8810170805.AA16380@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 88 08:05:47 GMT
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:We're speaking here of SMD, ESDI and Micro-channel systems, with DMA,
:disk-cacheing, etc.  As an example, the Altos has a separate CPU solely to
:manage the disk.
:
:The ONLY way I could believe the (undocumented (e.g. test environment NOT
:stated, what disk, etc.)) alleged 500KBytes/second would be if the system has
:multi-tasking shut down, the interface was having its registers read in a busy

	A basic flaw in your reasoning, apart from what people have been
getting with, say, the A2090 + FFS, is that it isn't the interface that
limits disk speed so much as the filesystem.

>******* stated ***** was NOT going to be demo'ing at AmiEXPO, so who can
>verify the claim?

	So, anybody out there?  I can't... don't have a DMA controller and
am going through two levels of hardware externally.

				-Matt