What's new on adaptex

[Paul de Bra]

In article <15 at omen.UUCP> caf at omen.UUCP (WA7KGX) writes:
>...
>With SCO Unix, Micronics 33 mHz 386, 1542A and a Wren V I get better than
>500 kbytes/sec on "cp bigfile /dev/null" if the system is quiet.  That's
>4MB.

I tried the same on my Everex Step 386/25, copying a 34Mbyte file to /dev/null.
This was using the 2322 ESDI controller and the Wren V ESDI drive.
I got 435 kbytes/sec. (it was also with AT&T Unix, not SCO)

So ESDI users should not feel like they missed a great opportunity by not
starting off with SCSI. I agree that SCSI may be better from a conceptual
point of view, but ESDI in a PC (single user, not more than 2 disks needed,
etc.) performs more than well enough.

Paul.
(debra at research.att.com)