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- From: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Which SCSI card to buy?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 21:55:43 GMT
- Organization: Gnome's Steamware
- Sender: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
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- In a message on 29-Jan-96 15:39:00, Andrew Sendetski wrote:
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- > I want to add SCSI controller to my A4000 to obtain more than 3 MB/sec
- > data transfer rate on Quantum Fireball 1GB SCSI HD (for work with
- > VLAB Motion card). Here is my question: which SCSI card suitable for this
- > (Fastlane Z3? DKB4091? Any other?) ?
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- I find the Oktagon 2008 very satisfactory, but I don't know how it
- compares with the others.
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- I'm using it on a 4000/40 which is about 2 years old - has a Rev.11
- buster chip and 3.1 processor board (I think - it was upgraded when
- Wang fitted the buster). It's driving a 500Mb Fujitsu scsi drive on
- the Oktagon board, an internal Toshiba XM3401 CD drive, and an
- external Viper tape drive. I've had no problems since I got the
- config right. The Oktagon manual is very badly laid out with
- information closely printed and scattered about in various chapters
- instead of being in sensible step-by-step format.
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- I don't normally pay attention to speed measurements, which are
- frequently bogus. Sysinfo crashes if I ask it to tell me "Speed".
- But "it never keeps me waiting" :-)
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- I just ran "DiskSpeed" and got the following:
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- Testing with a 262144 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned, MEMF_FAST)
- Create file: 245453 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 66%
- Write to file: 533706 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 56%
- Read from file: 506558 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 51%
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- That's nowhere near the speed you ask for, but I don't know how
- my drive compares with yours. I had 5 large programs dormant in
- the background: Thor, BBS, Trapdoor, CygnusEd, DirOpus.
-
- John
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