Path: utzoo!censor!geac!gord
From: gord@geac.UUCP (Gord Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 1.2meg vs 1.44meg drive speeds
Message-ID: <7390@geac.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 13:46:19 GMT
Reply-To: gord@geac.UUCP (Gord Armstrong)
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Organization: Geac Computers, Markham, Ontario Canada
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>I have an AT-class machine with both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 drives.  The 5 1/4
>is suitably fast but the 3 1/2 is pitifully slow. Does anyone have a
>3 1/2 drive that is actually just as fast as the 5 1/4?
>
>Gary Harrington

I don't, but close. I arced a 978k file and measured the time it took
to copy: 44 secs to the 1.2meg 5.25 and 48 secs to the 1.44meg 3.5".
Using an AT clone with a 16 bit controller.

...Gord (gord@geac)