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- From: Ken@kenwyn.demon.co.uk (Ken)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive...~500K transfer rate?
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:32:51 GMT
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- On 28-Mar-96 19:58:40, Paul Adams wrote this about Re: Zip drive...~500K
- transfer rate?;
- > 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?
-
- Huh.....
- I suspect that if you read the question and re-read your answer we
- would not be reading this ;-)
-
- Ken...................
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