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- From: besse@pflaphy.pph.univie.ac.at (Ardjan Besse)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help with transfer rate??!?!?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 10:28:15 GMT
- Organization: Inst. of Plant Physiology
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- >
- >>On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Steve Powell wrote:
- >>> I used to avoid the Seacrate 2.5" IDEs, they, like the similar IBM
- >>> and Western Digital drives, are (were) just amazingly crap, I've seen
- >>> them go as slow as 180Kb sec. Trouble is the damn things are not even
- >>> me I was wrong, and you'd had fine service from Seacrate and the like.
- >>> modern 3.5" drives from the same manufacturers are fine (except IBM who
- >>> tend to make drives that go bang in the night, too often for my liking).
- >>Well, 180KB/s sounds very fast for me. That is because my Hitachi
- >>DK211A - 00G1 486MB harddisk makes only 80KB/s (in words: eighty!!) :-((.
- >>I am using a CD32/SX32 combination with 4MB Fast-Mem, and it has
- >
- >I have A1200 (030/50MHz) and two Quantum harddisks 3.5" (850MB & 1080MB) and
- >both drives gives me over 2MB/s. I'm using IDEFix package, before IDEFix my
- >drives speed was 1600-1900K/s. Back in 1991 my old A500 & A590 (42MB Nec)
- >speed was 1MB/s.
- >
-
- Ok, It's great to know what devices all you people have, I even can add mine:
- Seagate 3145 (120 Mb, ca. 1Mb/s)
- Seagate 3245 (204 Mb, ca. 220 Kb/s)
- on my A1200 with Blizzard 1220/4 with 28Mhz 68882...
-
- The 204Mb drive worked always like I expected on my 486DX2-80 (No Intel inside: AMD!),
- ca. 800kb/s.
-
- Why can't I get the big drive working faster? I tried to set MaxTrans down, but it didn't
- work (SysInfo). As a solodrive it's the same...
-
- Why???
-
- Ardjan...
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