Hard Drive Advice
11-Jan-95 20:32:47
Sb: #181498-Hard Drive Advice
Fm: daniel stripes 76474,1514
To: Christopher Tolmie 73657,3335
Chris,
Just for giggles, I reconfigured the Quantum last night:
LowCyl: 1 BootPri: -10 DMA Mask: 0xfffffffe
HiCyl: 5782 Partitions: 1 MaxTransfer: 0x7fffffff
Heads: 3 FileSystem: FFS Boot/Mount: Mount
Sectors: 62 BufferType: Either BufferMemory: 32
MB Size: 525
Several SysInfo speed checks gave the following results:
Model bytes/sec ================================= QULT540S 2,075,018
to 2,091,574 7120SCS 984,270 to 985,503 DF0: 22,206
The Maxtor is 89% full whereas the Quantum is again empty except for trashcan,
disk.info and mountlist. I think transfer rate is affected by volume of data
stored on the drive, but I don't have time right now to copy several megabytes
of files to the Quantum to fill it and then test it… maybe another time.
//daniel on
\X/ AutoPilot 1.75