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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Performance tests, comments invited
Message-ID: <193@kesmai.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 88 18:47:14 GMT
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In article <5030@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
 > 
 > >Miniscribe 3053 5.25" 40meg, CPU=68030, 32bit memory, FFS , Commodore 2090
 > >Commodore A2090 is a DMA controller (ST-506)
 > >r/w speed:		buf 32768 bytes, rd 84562 byte/sec, wr 34492 byte/sec
 > 
 > Please note that the Minscribe is, I believe, a 40 ms or maybe slower drive,
 > unlike the Quantum 40S's you were using above.  Also note that the speed of
 > a 2090 may well be faster using SCSI than St506.
 > 
Not to disagree with the other points in your article, I wanted to correct
this one point of information.  The Miniscribe 3053 is a fairly high
performance drive 44M 25msec access.  The 3650 is 40M 61msec access,
probably the one you are confusing it with.

David Albrecht