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- From: p.a.adams@mcs.salford.ac.uk (Paul Adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive...~500K transfer rate?
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 14:58:40 GMT
- Organization: University of Salford
- Message-ID: <4je9f0$8d0_001@salford.ac.uk>
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- In article <4j6hot$bf8@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca>,
- mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca (Mark Worden) wrote:
- >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?
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
-
-
- Part of the problem might be the rather slow transfer rate of the
- pcmcia slot, maybe?
-
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