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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
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Posted: Mon Dec 22 20:51:16 1986
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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
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