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Re: Disk transfer speed for isa pcs

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From: Richard Ashton
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <804864110snz@rs32.demon.co.uk>
           Roger@rs32.demon.co.uk "Roger Smith" writes:

}Our company has a number of Compaq Deskpros which have a standard IDE
}controller on an ISA bus.
}
[snipped]

}Is this the sort of x-fer rate I should expect?  Which *cheap* 540Mb drives
}could improve on this?

Under OS/2 with SMS enabled my two Quantam 540's do

Perf Version 1.2
(C) Copyright 1990-1992 Les J. Ventimiglia

OS/2 Protected mode testing OS Version 2.30
Drive 1:    DTR = 2155.78 Kb/Sec
Drive 2:    DTR = 2260.48 Kb/Sec

{R}
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From: Richard Ashton <richard@corixia.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Disk transfer speed for isa pcs
Date: 1995/07/05
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