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Jade V. Thaveekij - Maia (jade@maia.au.ac.th) wrote:
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950316131507.12581A-100000@spsscsc1.reading.ac.uk>,
> James Gillies <spugilis@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> �>> The EIDE HDD which I have seen (mainly WD) give around the same benchmarks,
> �>> but to be able to help you more I need a bit more information,
> �>> Using the WD Drive Rocket Utility you can observe specs that range from
> �>> 800 kps for 512 byte blocks all the way to 5500 kps for 64 kb blocks.
> �>> The above test gives 2100 kps for an average throughput.
> �>>
> �>My brand new Western Digital AC2700H (730mb) gives 1.5Mb/s with a
> �>bog-standard EIDE VL card and no drivers. If I load the I/O card driver,
> �>I get 2.2Mb/sec. I haven't tried Drive Rocket yet.

> From reading the above information, I became to realize that mys
> system was a little bit faster than you guys.  I'm running the
> no-brand EIDE card on a VL-slot (The driver itself named  VG4  using
> the Promise chip with the Conner 850A and get only 1.3MB/s with no
> drivers and 3MB/s with driver loaded.

What benchmark programs are you using to get these numbers. I haver several
programs and they all give widely varying numbers. Using cortest for example
gives me 6.5MB/s transfer rate to my DEC RZ26 SCSI drive with and without
special drivers loaded. However Norton SI v7.0 gives me 2MB/s with and
without special drivers loaded.
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