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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Buffered seek and the A2090A?
Keywords: Is it supported?
Message-ID: <1065@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 05:53:49 GMT
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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I've got a Seagate ST4096 (80 meg ST506/412) hooked up to my A2090A.
This drive has a buffered seek of 3-70 microseconds. Is there any way to
exploit this with the A2090A? I saw no mention of this feature at all in
the A2090(A) manual.


The diskperf times seemed rather uninspiring for a 28Ms drive, any
suggestions for speeding things up?


File create/delete:     create 9 files/sec, delete 31 files/sec
Directory scan:         48 entries/sec
Seek/read test:         65 seek/reads per second
r/w speed:              buf 512 bytes, rd 55775 byte/sec, wr 27887 byte/sec
r/w speed:              buf 4096 bytes, rd 131072 byte/sec, wr 109226 byte/sec
r/w speed:              buf 8192 bytes, rd 163840 byte/sec, wr 131072 byte/sec
r/w speed:              buf 32768 bytes, rd 201649 byte/sec, wr 154202 byte/sec



(PS to Dale Luck: I've tried e-mailing you, but no response. My A2090A 
 will not format the ST4096 with 9 heads. Can we talk about that ROM?)
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