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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
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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
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