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- From: wolff@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
- Subject: Re: Is 5 MB/sec to disk possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.113703.11610@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:37:03 GMT
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- frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
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- >johnhunt@apee.ogi.edu (John Hunt) writes:
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- >>1. Can anyone suggest a disk for this application?
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- >The suggestion below may sound silly, but it would work, if there is
- >sufficient time between the 20Mbyte bursts.
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- > Fill the machine up with RAM (32 Meg) and create a 30M RAMdisk.
- > Each burst would more-or-less fill it, but with enough time between
- > bursts, you would not have any problems writing the data to a slow disk
- > between the bursts.
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- >-frisk
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- The next step in the original question was to write things to tape.
- You'd probably need a commercial package to do that, and this will
- requ{re the data to be in regular files. Therefore the RAMDISK
- is ideal: A regular file with very good access times.
-
- Roger.
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