Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.periphs Subject: Re: CDC 9772 disk drives w Emulex sc7003 disk controller on VAX 8600 Message-ID: <9829@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 17 Dec 87 01:13:13 GMT References: <182@tijc02.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 11 In article <182@tijc02.UUCP>, seb022@tijc02.UUCP (Scott Bemis) writes: >... Carefully controlled benchmarks showed these disk drives to be >43 percent faster than the RA81 disk drives. I am a little surprised they are only this much faster. I would attribute DEC RA drive slowness to the UDA50 if my measurements on a KDB50 did not show that it is not much faster. Part of the problem is the 6ms head switch delay in the RA81. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris