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From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 2.02 386/ix and SCSI drives
Summary: 9380S drive
Keywords: scsi and 386/ix
Message-ID: <511167@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 11:51:29 GMT
References: <25c4d13e:497comp.unix.i386@nstar.UUCP> <1990Feb1.144901.1011@ddsw1 <1990Feb5.184814.221@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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In article <1990Feb5.184814.221@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
> >How about Miniscribe 9380S drives?
> 
> They don't have read-ahead cache, from what I hear.
> 
> Thus, they are pitifully slow compared to the competition.  They may be
> cheap, yes, but in this case you do get what you do (or don't) pay for!

According to the manual - they have one track of read ahead buffering.


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