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Boy, you guys are vultures <g>. I haven't even got it installed yet! But hold on, I'll finish this message with the early verdict. Well it took me a little longer than I thought to get the darn thing working. Seems like the SyQuest-270 is a little less tolerant of SCSI bus noise than my other drives, including the old SyQuest-44. Once I shortened up the SCSI cables a little bit, it started working just fine. Here is the Diskspeed results of the drive, using 35 buffers and no other caching: .MKSoft DiskSpeed 4.0 – Copyright C 1989-91 MKSoft Development .————————————————————- .CPU: 68040 OS Version: 40.68 Normal Video DMA .Device: SY1: Buffers: 35 .Comments: DiskSpeed 4.1 . .CPU Speed Rating: 3104 . .Testing directory manipulation speed. .File Create: 35 files/sec | CPU Available: 64% .File Open: 72 files/sec | CPU Available: 38% .Directory Scan: 209 files/sec | CPU Available: 45% .File Delete: 136 files/sec | CPU Available: 39% . .Seek/Read: 71 seeks/sec | CPU Available: 81% . .Testing with a 512 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned, MEMF_FAST) .Create file: 29781 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 82% .Write to file: 29699 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 83% .Read from file: 112789 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 47% . .Testing with a 4096 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned, MEMF_FAST) .Create file: 106469 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 90% .Write to file: 111129 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 91% .Read from file: 622592 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 58% . .Testing with a 32768 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned, MEMF_FAST) .Create file: 296855 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 90% .Write to file: 347551 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 92% .Read from file: 1291108 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 78% . .Testing with a 262144 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned, MEMF_FAST) .Create file: 604458 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 90% .Write to file: 857925 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 95% .Read from file: 1741177 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 92% So there you have it Leslie. I'll send you a follow up in a couple of weeks on it's operation if you haven't already purchased one <g>. // John (Speeding on the Information Superhighway) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net