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- From: paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky)
- Subject: Micropolis 2gig drive problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.221635.25706@Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Princeton University
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:16:35 GMT
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- We just took delivery of a Micropolis ASI-500L
- 2 Gig (formats to 1.7 gig) drive. It is plug
- and play and comes up with no problems.
- What is wrong is that it is quite slow on
- non sequential transfers. That is cating
- a big file to /dev/null (using dd) yields
- only about a 400kbyte per second transfer
- rate. This is very slow. Our wrenVII gives
- us almost a meg a second under these conditions.
-
- The NeXT disk utility program, on the other
- hand shows a 1.5 meg per second transfer
- on sequential transfers, but this is
- not how life works. The disk is formatted
- at 512k.
-
- Anyone have any experiences or recommendations
- on this?
-
- Thanks
-
- Paul Lansky
- paul@princeton.edu
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