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From: ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard disk through parallel port
Message-ID: <881@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 21:51:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 21:51:03 1986
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References: <8612180630.AA23659@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1537@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross Miller)
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In article <1537@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> eric@ulysses.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky) writes:
>
>>        Actually, if you take RAM: timing as the theoretical maximum, it's
>>more around 150-200K/Sec.
>Actually, it isn't. Using RAM: speeds is not a good metric for
>measuring AmigaDOS throughput. RAM: implements it's own handler -
>l:Ram-Handler and does not use a normal AmigaDOS filesystem. A
>physical disk device or Recoverable Ram Disk like ASDG's uses a
>normal AmigaDOS file handler which provides only 35K/Sec maximum
>throughput, and you had better use it on a disk if you want to be
>100% compatible... 
Hmmm,
	If this is true, then it would greatly benifit all hard disk
users, if the hard disk company in question supplied a non-standard
driver with their disk.

						Ross
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