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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
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Posted: Thu Dec 18 20:52:40 1986
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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.