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From: scott@ssgp32.UU.NET (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Hard Drive Recommendations?
Message-ID: <536@ssgp32.UU.NET>
Date: 7 Jun 89 19:41:35 GMT
References: <2869@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <19141@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.,Framingham MA -- Entry Level Systems Group
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In article <19141@cup.portal.com>, silver@cup.portal.com (Jim B Howard) writes:
> Well, speaking from experience, DONT get the StarBoard SCSI Controller.
> I have the misfortune of owning one, and it is just _barely_ faster
> than a floppy drive.  Even Microbotics admits this.  Get anything else.

I don't agree at all.  I get well over 200K/sec read speeds from my
StarDrive, and that's on a well-fragmented disk.  I've hit 292K.
Some folks appear to be having trouble getting speed out of their
StarDrives, but a little experimentation goes a long way.  With a
hard interleave of 2:1 on my ST277N, I found I got the best read
speeds.  3:1 interleave improved write speeds.

I ran a series of tests to arrive at my current buffering and
interleave parameters.  It takes a little trial and error, but I'm
now a very satisfied StarDrive user.

-scott