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From: berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Starboard SCSI board woes. (slow as christmas)
Message-ID: <608@stsci.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 89 15:02:33 GMT
References: <19142@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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From article <19142@cup.portal.com>, by silver@cup.portal.com (Jim B Howard):
> Is there any way to speed up this Starboard SCSI controller of mine?
> The best rates I can get from it are 53k per second according to
> diskperf and autotest.  I called Microbotics and they told me, 

What interleave value did you use when you did the low-level format?

Try 3.

I'm getting 150-200K/reads with the same setup that you have (no, it's
not blinding, but the controller only cost $90...)

Good luck.

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