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From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCASI or IDE disk?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 11:08:53 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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X-To: Sandy Lam <sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU>

Sandy Lam <sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU> writes:
 
>coretest says 15 megs / sec.  if we run it in PIO mode, we can get a
>little under 10 megs / sec.  These are also PIO mode 3 and DMA mode 2 drives.
 
True performance *will* depend on drive transfer rate.  Can't wait
until they are commonly available.  After years and years of vaporware
announcements, I am a bit shy of new stuff.  But I can't wait!!!!
 
John
dyson@implode.root.com