jho@imada.ou.dk (Jens H. Ovesen) (05/22/91)
rknight@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk (Roger Knight (B21)) writes: >I bought an Acorn SCSI card for my R140 when they first came out and added >a Seagate St1096 as the boot device for RISCix. However my tests showed the >SCSI disc was exactly the same speed as the internal ST506 so I repartitioned >it without a swap partition and booted it from the internal disc again! Well, when it comes to SCSI the rule of speed is: the bigger the disc, the faster the transfer. The ST1096 is a 80MB, right? So you won't notice much difference in speed with that one. If you used say a 320MB, you certainly would! Jens.