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From: Jurriaan W Kalkman
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:15

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In article <69210595wnr@rosebery.demon.co.uk> Brian@rosebery.demon.co.uk (Brian Sheehan) writes:
>From: Brian@rosebery.demon.co.uk (Brian Sheehan)

>Replies to this would be very much appreciated as I seem to
>be getting nothing but conflicting advice from dealers.

>I have a DX66 VESA motherboard (8mb ram) with an AMI bios
>of 08/08/93 (10/01/93)  - yes, it gives two different dates
>on boot up - and a couple of enhanced Western Digital hard
>disks the 425mb and 850mb. I am using Ontract Drive Manager
>to overcome the 540mb plus limitation.

>Using my standard IDE/IO ISA card I am getting a transfer
>rate of 900mb a second, pretty terrible I know, especially

         ^^^^^

Ouch. Terrible for sure.

>when I get well over 1.1mb/sec when using the card with a
>plain ISA motherboard, with a DX33 installed.

Don't worry, I'll send a normal answer too.

Greetings,

Jurriaan W Kalkman
j.w.kalkman@student.utwente.nl

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