eehamid@cybaswan.UUCP (ia.hamid) (05/02/90)
In article <17100051@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs122bm@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Michael writes: > Some of Western Digitals controllers, such as the WD1006V-MM2, have > on-board caches. For some reason these caches confuse the heck out of the > Norton SI and you wind up getting a slower rating than you should. Thanks for the reply. Since I posted the question, I have installed Windows386 on my machine and configured the 2Mb both as extended and expanded mem. using emm386. I also installed Smartdrv to use the expanded mem. as a disk cache and ran the same Norton test. Guess what Michael? I got a new DI and PI. Is Norton affected by hardware caches only? By the way, I could not run Win386 with the emm386 running. I got a "Protected mode software already installed" error. Any suggestion here will also come in handy. Thanks alot.
byoder@smcnet.smc.edu (Brian Yoder) (05/03/90)
In article <1782@cybaswan.UUCP> eehamid@cybaswan.UUCP (ia.hamid) writes: > I have just finished installing a WD1006-MM2 HD controller into my >386-20 machine and reformated my ST251-1 at 1:1 interleave using Disk Manager. > I had a WA2 controller which gave only an optimal interleave of 2 and >data transfer rate of 200 Kb/s. That was slowing down my machine performance >somewhat. I noted some performance figures before removing this controller; > Norton SI : 21.1 (Adv. 4.5) > DI : 3.4 (Disk Index) > PI : 15.1 (Performance INdex). >With the new controller operating, I have done a similar test but to my own >astonishment none of the figures above changed. I can understand why SI index >remained the same but I expect some changes in the DI and PI figures! Can >anyone out there enlightened me please ? The DI statistic is a combination of two figures. One is the data transfer rate from the disk which might not change with the addition of your new controller. The other is a measurement of track-to-track seek time. Again this may not change with a new controller. Future versions of SI will include more than just these two factors in your disk performance index. Good Luck, Brian Yoder -- -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>- | Brian Yoder | answers *byoder(); | | uunet!ucla-cs!smcnet!byoder | He takes no arguments and returns the answers | -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-