Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Starboard Questions Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 89 01:54:29 GMT References: <1989Dec10.034122.28606@aucs.uucp> <949@rouge.usl.edu> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 27 In-reply-to: me300234@pa.usl.edu's message of 14 Dec 89 20:22:09 GMT >>>>> On 14 Dec 89 20:22:09 GMT, me300234@pa.usl.edu (Stelly John B III) said: s> The starboard II's SCSI interface is slow, I haven't noticed it to be buggy. s> I believe (with a 28ms drive no FFS) it diskperfed at about 70K reads s> 40K writes. This is still much faster than floppy drives, but it is kind of s> slow for a hard drive. But if you already have the starboard, the interface s> only cost a little more than $100 bucks, so it's definitely worth that. Shortly after I got my Stardrive SCSI interface, I tested it out with my Seagate ST-157N (40 ms). Using DiskPerf, I was getting about 190K/sec reads and writes around 120K/sec. Perhaps you are unaware of playing with the interleave of the format, and using the supplied "fastmode" program that Microbotics ships with the interface? They both work wonders. I keep hearing people whine about how slow the Stardrive SCSI interface is. I find that it works quite well for me. I've never had any problems, and it works plenty fast. Certainly it's not DMA, but it gets the job done. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM Entry Systems Division -- Engineering