On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Ronny Svedman wrote:

> NFS mounting a MicroVAX II with DELQA is actually FASTER than using local
> RD53/54 disks, atleast when it comes to pure throughput.=20
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> under netbsd1.3.2:
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> FTP to a machine in the same network: 180 Kbyte/sec
> cp from one RD53 to another, according to systat: 105Kbyte/sec
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> the machine was unloaded (load ~ 1.1) during both tests.
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> Conclusions/comments ?

I've also found that several years ago. MFM-drives are SLOW! I think=20
they=B4re running on interleave 3:1 or so.=20

With a dilog SCSI-card and an old 1 Gb seagate SCSI-drive, the=20
performance raises to three times the speed with RD54. So the machine is=20
fast enough to use the speed of SCSI-drives.. ;)