Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!wanginst!ulowell!ross 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 Article-I.D.: ulowell.881 Posted: Fri Dec 19 21:51:03 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 06:37:43 EST References: <8612180630.AA23659@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1537@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross Miller) Organization: University of Lowell Lines: 19 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 uucp: wanginst!ulowell!ross csnet: ross%ulowell.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa