Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!topaz!eric From: eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard disk through parallel port Message-ID: <8086@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 20:51:16 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.8086 Posted: Mon Dec 22 20:51:16 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 00:29:08 EST References: <8612180630.AA23659@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1537@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <881@ulowell.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 30 In article <881@ulowell.UUCP> ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross Miller) .>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 No no!, Please no! Do *not* supply a non-standard driver!!! That is not the way to solve the situation. The way to solve it is to attack it at its' heart - AmigaDOS itself, which apparently Tim King has done according to Phil Lindsays' latest tidbits... Eric -- ARPA: LAVITSKY@RUTGERS or LAVITSKY@RED.RUTGERS.EDU UUCP: ...topaz!eric ...hplabs!well!lavitsky ...ulysses!eric