Re: Question about Focus Hard Drives

[ell.ee.ess.aich.ee.are.jay.tee; rm -rf ~; nought-a-name@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

: In article nobody@REPLAY.COM (Scott Gammon) writes...

: >On another issue, I think I know why David Empson's Trailblazer HD
: >with Apple HS SCSI was slower than my HD with the same card.  David,
: >how many partitions/devices do you have on your SCSI chain?  GS/OS
: >scans each volume on boot-up, significantly slowing the boot.  I
: >probably have far less partitions than you (three on the drive, to
: >be exact)!

Note that it matters most how many DEVICES, not partitions, you have,
and the speed of those various devices.  For example, a Zip drive is
slower than a Quantum drive, a 3.5 is slower than a Zip drive, and the
5.25 drive is even slower than that!

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