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- From: "Stefano Agostinelli" <agos001@pn.itnet.it>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive...~500K transfer rate?
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:51:53 +0100
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- Mike Williams wrote in comp.sys.amiga.hardware about "Re: Zip drive...~500K
- transfer rate?":
- > The controller will make quite a bit of difference. I have a Zip drive
- > hooked up to both a PC with a cheap ISA non-DMA SCSI card and a 4000 with an
- > Emplant SCSI. (Yes, they're on the same bus, and yes the two machines have
- > different ID numbers) Anyway, the transfer from the Emplant SCSI (when it
- > works at all) is significantly slower than the transfer on the PC, even
- > though the Zip drive is mounted much closer to the Amiga. The Emplant gets
- > only about 500K/s because it's only SCSI I. The PC card gets more like 800
- > because it's SCSI II.
-
- Well my A3000 has a SCSI I ctrl but it still manages to achieve 1.2MB/s
- for the Zip! The reason you get that low transfer speed is that Emplant
- SCSI is crappy, not because it is SCSI I!
-
- Cheers
- Stefano
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