Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs Subject: Re: Lot's of questions Message-ID: <526@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 20:52:40 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.526 Posted: Thu Dec 18 20:52:40 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 02:45:27 EST References: <9073FIB@PSUVM> <524@brl-sem.ARPA> <675@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab Lines: 15 Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:588 comp.periphs:65 In article <675@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>, madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost) writes: > In article <524@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes: > NO! When I used the Bernoulli Box 10+10, it ran plenty faster than > a floppy, and with about the same apparent speed as the IBM PC XT > using the supplied 10mb drive. Which is pretty god awful slow as well. > performance. Cost: Wear and tear on the disk, but minimal, and your > driver will be a little bigger because you need junk area for the > sector you read. Nah, the IOMEGA supports SEEKING without READING, it's just that the controller locks up while the seek is occuring so you can't do any other I/O.