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>>Incidentally, the people I talked to at SuperMac claim that the XP upgrade
>>does *not* require drive reformating or even hardware mods to the
>>DataFrame itself--just the ROM board inside the Mac.  It should make
>>the Mac about two times as fast during Mac<->HD exchanges.

After having reformatted my SuperMac with version 1.5 of the Initializer,
I have some doubts to that.  The first time I timed my drive (with
the hard drive timing program that came across the net a few weeks ago),
I got something like 32 sec. on the 100 32K reads, and 32 sec. on the 100
32K writes.  I just timed it today (after reformatting with 1.5), and it
timed at 27.1 sec. on the reads, and 28.6 sec. on the writes.

The XP upgrade may not *require* reformatting, but something in either
the reformatting or the new SCSI drivers (gotten by running the Updater
program) does speed up reads and writes.

Peter
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