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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive...~500K transfer rate?
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 00:33:25 GMT
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- On 25 Mar 1996 16:31:25 GMT, Mark Worden articulated:
- <> I recently bought an Iomega Zip drive and am using it on an A3000. I was
- <> told the transfer rate can be as high as 1MB/sec, and was surprised to
- <> learn (using SysInfo) that the actual transfer rate is only around 578K/sec
- <> (the internal Quantum hard drive is about 755K/sec).
- <>
- <> Now, I'm betting that this has to do with either the filing system (both
- <> devices are formatted with Fast File System) or the A3000's SCSI
- <> controller (or maybe both).
- <>
- <> Is there a way to increase this transfer rate? Does it mean I have to
- <> invest in something like AFS, and/or a SCSI controller (perhaps GVP)?
- <>
- <> Is there a cheaper (or free ;) alternative to these?
-
- I hooked up a friend's ZIP drive to my Trumpcard Pro SCSI controller
- and received 900k xfers. I also have an '030 @ 50 MHz. CPU
- in my A2000.
-
- I regularly get 1.6 Mbs/sec with my EZ135S drive hooked to
- the same controller.
-
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