Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!prism!bb16 From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (BOSTATER,Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: SCSI drive/controller Keywords: SCSI drive controlloer Message-ID: <1451@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 11 Aug 89 13:05:27 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 20 I have recently purchased a Seagate ST296N (84 Mbyte, 28 ms, 1:1 interleave) hard disk and a Western Digital WDSCS-FASTATXT2 X3 SCSI controller capable of upto 650 kbyte/sec transfer rate. I'm running them in a 20 MHz 80386 clone (AMI bios, C&T chipset). I am getting only 56 kbyte/sec transfer rate out of the drive. All of the hard disk performance/diagnostic software that I have fails on the drive because its a SCSI and is accessed through a device driver. Does anyone have any experience with this controller and/or hard disk? I would hate to think that I spent $500+ on a relatively large, extermely slow hard disk. Does anyone know if there's a program similar to SPINRITE that can handle a SCSI drive? Should I try a low level format with a 2:1 interleave (groan... I have 50 MB of data on it already)? Any help would be gratefully appreciated, -- Scott Bostater GTRI/RAIL/RAD (Ga. Tech) "My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him" -Ps 62.1 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!bb16 Internet: bb16@prism.gatech.edu