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- From: coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann)
- Subject: SCSI floppy disk on INDIGO: Why is it so slooow?
- Message-ID: <coizi01.726527326@convex>
- Summary: Floppy disk on Iris Indigo is too slow
- Keywords: INDIGO, floppy, SCSI
- Sender: news@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (News Operator)
- Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:08:46 GMT
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- We have an R3000 Indigo and are relatively satisfied with it,
- except a few things: The SCSI floppy is *VERY* slow with data
- rates of about 5-6K/sec. Is any newer SCSI system software
- available, that speeds up floppy read/write to *normal* data
- rates, which are (please correct me, if I'm wrong) about
- 40-100 K/s for MSDOS machines?? Or is it just the drive
- hardware, which seems to be a bottleneck in data throughput?
- Any help is appreciated.
-
- Norbert Zimmermann
- Institut of Organic Chemistry
- NMR subdivision
- Auf der Morgenstelle 18
- 7400 Tuebingen
- Germany
-