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In article <15042@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> henders@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (B. Scott Henderson) writes:
>
>I have such a beast [Seagate ST296N SCSI drive] in my machine.  It
>runs off a Seagate ST-02 Host
>Adapter.  It's a bit slow for me (I have a '386) but with a good
>disk caching program it's not too bad (I use Microsoft's Smartdrive).

The ST-02 is slow no matter _what_ you connect it to.  I tried it
with an otherwise blazingly fast CDC/Imprimis and rejected the
controller as a result of it's poor performance.  Instead of 1.4
Megabytes/second transfer rate (obtained with an Adaptec 1542A) I
got something in the 300 kbytes/sec range, as I recall.  (This is in
a fast '386 box.)

So it sits in the drawer...  (Don't ask: unless you want to transfer
it internal to Tektronix I won't even consider selling it - you have
no idea the kind of paperwork (= expense) it would be to sell a $50
board outside the company.  I'm sure this is endemic of most large
corporations.)

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