Re: Some questions

[90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (TAO BRIAN T)]

The following revelation escaped Matthew W. Hacker's lips:
>
>4)  How fast can the SCSI cards (Apple or RamFast) transfer
>    memory.  i.e. what's the max if it is just reading a
>    500KB file and writing each 50KB chunk straight to memory?

    Theoretically you can get close to 1 megabyte per second with a DMA
card.  I get a nominal rate of about 650K/sec during normal file operations
and close to 800K/sec using sequential block reads (like when verifying a
disk using Prosel-16)
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