[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] Hard disk runs at half speed

GHICKS@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Gregory Hicks) (08/21/90)

Mark:

>Is this a gut feeling or did you test the drive? ...

It's a gut feeling based on the sound of the drive when seeking
(I've had one for the past six years and I've never heard such
a low pitched seek) and the Norton SI (0.6 with a NEC V20??)

Gregory
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GHICKS@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Gregory Hicks) (08/22/90)

David:

I ran coretest 2.92 against the whole thing and came up with
an average seek time of 802ms, an average track-track seek time of
82ms, a data transfer rate of 107.2kb/s, and an overall "index"
of 0.702 when compared with the XT 10mb disk...  

Doesn't sound like an ST-251 to me...

Gregory
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