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- From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
- Subject: Re: Hard disk throughput speed ?
- Message-ID: <copes.716105336@marsh>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep8.171338.2492@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> <copes.716015341@marsh> <1992Sep9.214811.3744@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:08:56 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann) writes:
-
- >In article <copes.716015341@marsh>, copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
- >> msnider@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com (Marc A. Snider x0193) writes:
- >>
- >> >What kind of throughput can I expect from a stock A3000? How about the
- >> >the fastest throughput possible today on an A3000 and by what means?
- >>
- >> >Thanks,
- >> >M. Snider
- >>
- >> My A3000 25/50 with 6 megs fastram runs around 850K/sec to 1M/sec depending
- >> on disk usage and fragmentation. Thats set up with 100 buffers and the stock
- >> Quantum 52LPS drive. Sling in a Quantum 240LPS and you can expect around
- >> 1.3-1.6 M/sec, sustainable. GVP's 040 for the A3000 doesn't have a scsi
-
- >Hi,
- >I wonder how you get such high speeds I am using an A3000 and a Quantum LPS105
- >HD, but I only get a diskspeed (reading) of 820k/sec, and I have 16M FastRam and
- >have allocated 1600 buffers for the drive. I measured that with Diskspeed V4.2.
- >Why does Diskspeed hang my machine when it does it's byte allignmenttest at a
- >4096 byte buffer??? After a reboot then, the disk has a checksum error.
-
- >Arthur.
- > Arthur Hoffmann
- > hoffmann@pandanus.ntu.edu.au
-
- Past about 200 buffers it doesn't really make the transfer speed any higher, as
- you start to slow down maintaining them. It does however make seeks, creates,
- deletes etc faster, but the optimum for this appears to be around 500 (on my
- machine).
- Some versions only run the WD scsi chip at 7Mhz, for some reason. You could
- check the jumpers on the motherboard, they're listed in your manual. I'm not
- sure why they did this, perhaps a problem with DMAC? I presume your machine
- is a 25Mhz version. 16Mhz ones would run slower on disk tests, due to slower
- DMA. All oz machines are 25Mhz.
- Also, if you only have one drive, you could try disabling reselection in
- HDToolbox. Back up your drive first, though. On some systems this can make
- a difference in speed (added 100K sec on mine).
- Sounds like DiskSpeed 4.2 has a bug. I only have 4.1, and it doesn't hang at
- all. The sum error would be caused by diskspeed hanging during a write.
-
- Hope these tips help.
-
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- copes@cs.curtin.edu.au
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