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- From: hcm94rp2@dmu.ac.uk (Richard Perrott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 Internal IDE Transfer Rates
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 96 00:12:31 GMT
- Organization: De Montfort University
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- In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960304145752.23647A-100000@sunlab7>,
- Simon Dick <sidick@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
- >On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Steve Powell wrote:
- >
- >>
- >> In article <4ghevv$dro@lut.fi> Heikki Pora <pora@lut.fi> writes:
- >> > >Can someone tell me how many Mb/sec I should be getting with my A1200's
- >> > >internal IDE port connected to a Conner 250meg 2.5" harddrive?
- >> > >using DTA (available on Aminet) it reports Im only getting about
- 800k/s.
- >> > >This sounds way too low. Im using AFS and 300 buffers.
- >> >
- >> > I got about 700kb/s with my old 82mb 2.5" Quantum, and now my 1gb 3.5"
- Seagate
- >> > gives me about 1500kb/s.. so 800kb for your drive seems rather OK.
- >> > (I used DiskSpeed and SysInfo for the tests.)
- >> >
- >> > IDE drives on an A1200 aren't very fast... :(
- >>
- >> Funnily enough, the fastest IDE drive I've ever seen on an Amiga was on
- >> an A1200. It was a 2.5" Toshiba 810Mb unit and gave 2.4Mb/sec. The
- >> Toshiba 2.5" 520Mb units also give this same speed. As yet, I have not
- >> found a 3.5" unit (IDE) that gives the same speed on my A4000.
- >
- >Well, with my old 80MB IBM 2.5" drive, I used to get about 800k/s (all
- >these figures are according to SysInfo). My current 420MB seagate 3.5"
- >eide drive gets up to about 1.7MB/s. On my current drive, I get about
- >1.2MB/s using dta, didn't have dta with the 2.5" drive though. One note
- >about the dta speeds, I was using the scsi direct version of AFS which
- >may have made a difference.
- >
- > Simon Dick sidick@essex.ac.uk
- > IRC: SimD
- >
- On my A1200 with a 50MHz '030 and AFS Pro I get 2.5MB/s with a 1GB Seagate
- M51080A drive, it could go many times faster if the I/F were faster, say
- if Phase 5 sold an EIDE interface for the Blizzard III (hint!).
-
-
- Richard
-
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