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  3. From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
  5. Subject: Re: GVP Series 2 controller in A4000
  6. Message-ID: <1Zabs*OL0@prolix.apana.org.au>
  7. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:54:57 GMT
  8. References: <jKS8s*1H0@prolix.apana.org.au> <1992Dec16.181454.13559@isunix.cdx.mot.com>
  9.  <11X9s*LI0@prolix.apana.org.au> <1992Dec20.100004.6299@desire.wright.edu>
  10. Organization: More like Dis~, really.
  11. X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00
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  13.  
  14. In article <1992Dec20.100004.6299@desire.wright.edu>, fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
  15.  
  16. > In article <11X9s*LI0@prolix.apana.org.au>, dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
  17. > > In article <1992Dec16.181454.13559@isunix.cdx.mot.com>, Mark Montminy writes:
  18. > > 
  19. > > I eventually mounted my Quantum Pro 210 in the A4000, on the GVP
  20. > > Series II card, and it works okay.  A bit noisier than it was
  21. > > though.  The advice from the previous poster about backing it up
  22.  
  23. >     Did you run any speed tests?  If so, how did it do?
  24.  
  25. Yes.
  26.  
  27. It went awful.
  28.  
  29. Sysinfo 3.01 reported 750KB/Sec, whereas in my A2500/30 the same
  30. drive/controller was pushing 1.4Mb/sec.
  31.  
  32. But it's still usable.
  33.  
  34. I am at a loss to explain the performance problem.
  35.  
  36. The 120MB IDE drive pushes over 1MB/sec in raw read speed.
  37.  
  38. Dac
  39. --
  40. dac@prolix.apana.org.au              David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
  41. dac@prolix.sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
  42.                     <Using ARN on an Amiga 4000. Yay!>
  43.