carpio@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (antonio carpio) (06/07/90)
Thanks to A. Schmidel of Dallas and Tim of the U. of Denver for your comments on the performance of my 386SX. It is comforting to know that my Deico motherboard is considered high quality. Regading the data transfer rate of 460 Kb/sec on my IDE drive, which Schmeidel mentione was already "great" but could be around 600 if run optimally, I called the dealer who then checked with the supplier (it is a Miniscribe 80 MB IDE drive) who advised that Corest, while measuring data transfers on MFM and RLL control- lers adequately, does NOT measure IDE results propertly (IDE being relatively new). Coretest is reportedly coming up with a new version which will measure results from IDE drives propertly. Does this make sense? By the way, yes, I am happy with my set thus far.
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (06/12/90)
In article <PsDDk1w162w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> carpio@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (antonio carpio) writes: >Thanks to A. Schmidel of Dallas and Tim of the U. of Denver for your >comments on the performance of my 386SX. It is comforting to know that my >Deico motherboard is considered high quality. Regading the data transfer >rate of 460 Kb/sec on my IDE drive, which Schmeidel mentione was already >"great" but could be around 600 if run optimally, I called the dealer who >then checked with the supplier (it is a Miniscribe 80 MB IDE drive) who >advised that Corest, while measuring data transfers on MFM and RLL control- >lers adequately, does NOT measure IDE results propertly (IDE being >relatively new). Coretest is reportedly coming up with a new version >which will measure results from IDE drives propertly. Does this make >sense? By the way, yes, I am happy with my set thus far. I have a program I got off compuserve called hdtest that seems to work fairly well. I just installed an adaptec SCSI controller and I get >700Kbytes/sec. Now THAT is flying. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254
bob@allan.sublink.org (sysop ) (06/30/90)
carpio@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (antonio carpio) writes: > Deico motherboard is considered high quality. Regading the data transfer > rate of 460 Kb/sec on my IDE drive, which Schmeidel mentione was already > "great" but could be around 600 if run optimally, I called the dealer who > then checked with the supplier (it is a Miniscribe 80 MB IDE drive) who I have a 177Mb Imprimis IDE (type no. is buried inside the computer...) and a 386sx board. Coretest report 826 Kb/sec. as typical trensfer-rate (830 Kb/sec. peak). This when I set the bus clock as PROCCLK/2 (8 Mhz). Before I had bus clock as ATCLK and transfer-rate is 520 Kb/sec. :-( Obviously interleave is 1:1. Bye. Lanfranco ** allan ** Lanfranco Albani Calderara di Reno (BO) tel +39 51 727372 UUCP: bob@allan.sublink.org "Anche i bancari hanno un'anima"