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From: bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Brian C. White)
Subject: Re: SCSI on dos
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Keywords: SCSI, DOS, streamer
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 15:50:45 GMT
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In article <1993Apr19.132748.18044@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>It was the Seagate 296N and the ST-02 controller.  I found that the
>controller couldn't keep up with a 1:1 interleave, so the best I could do
>with the drive was a 2:1 interleave and a data transfer of about 450 k/sec.

According to what others have told me, the ST-296N is difficult to run at
the 1:1 interleave even though Seagate claims it.  I have a non-pc system
(don't ask what it is, you probably haven't heard of it) that is built
around SCSI and it can't do 1:1, either.

                                        Brian
                           ( bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca )

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