Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?

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From: Bill Funk
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <67ppnb$afc$3@news01.iafrica.com>, cquirke@iafrica.com says...
> Mark Booth <markb@oxim.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >PS I've just had a play with a Maxtor 84320D4, 4.3Gb EIDE drive, which
> >benchmarks between 11.80 MB/sec sustained, down to 7.40 MB/sec, with an
> >average of 10.40 MB/sec, but on a new Dell M233s (bottom of the Dell
> >range, VX chipset motherboard).
> 
> BTW do Dell still do HX chipset mobos with no SIMM slots?  Poor users
> have to pay a premium for slower EDO DIMMs.  Stupidity redefined.
> 
> 

Why can't SDRAM DIMMs be used? EDO isn't the only type of memory that 
will fit or be recognized, is it?

-- 
Bill Funk
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From: skypilot@starlink.com (Bill Funk)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/24
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