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- Subject: Re: Slow Internal Hard Drive Performance on 3000/25 (
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.195102.4266@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
- From: hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:51:02 +0900
- Sender: hoffmann@nutmeg (Arthur Hoffmann)
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- In article <69337@cup.portal.com>, stb@cup.portal.com (Stan Robert Hodge) writes:
- > Help...
- >
- > I have a 3000/25 with 2Meg chip 4Meg SC ram. This is one of the very early
- > 3000's (40Meg HD [Q P40]). It is running 2.04.
- >
- > Last week I was using my friends (new) 3000/16 (50Meg [LP52]) and I ran
- > 'SYSINFO 3.01' and did a speed test of his drive.
- >
- > This 3000/16 showed 1.1 MegBytes/sec!
- >
- > Running this same test on my 3000/25 shows only 770 KBytes/sec ???
- >
- > Thinking that I must have upgradded something wrong I backed up the system
- > and ran prod_prep from the 3000 Install (ver 2.04) disk.
- >
- > Same results.
- >
- > I am confused. Is the 52Meg drive really 25% faster than the 40Meg?
- >
- > Digging a bit further I found a difference in the fastfilesystem between
- > the two machines. My 3000/25 has the rev 35 fastfilesystem (size 22412)
- > and the 3000/16 had rev 2 of the fastfilesysem (size 20??? [I don't have
- > the exact number in front of me]. These numbers were reported from
- > hdtoolbox.
- >
- > If it makes any difference I still have a 1.3 partition on the drive.
- >
- > Some time ago I read some talk about the mask value for the filesystem.
- > It was set to 0xfffffffc by prod_prep. I changed it to 0xfffffffe but
- > had no difference.
- >
- >
- > What are the correct setups here... and are these the type of numbers
- > I should be seeing? (Commadore?? [Dave H])?
- >
- >
- > Thanks
- > Stan Hodge
- > stb@cup.portal.com
- >
- >
- Hi, I don't know what your problem is, but I am having similar problems with my
- Quantum LPS105. My transfer rate is only about 800k. My amiga is also one that
- still has a 1.3 partition and the 2.04 ROM on disk.
- I just thought we might have the same problem. (mine is a 25mHz model too.)
-
- Arthur.
-
- Arthur Hoffmann
- hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au
-