AT&T 6300+ add-in disk problem!
Samuel Wilson
wilson at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu
Tue May 23 12:52:01 AEST 1989
Ahem. This friend of mine... has an AT&T 6300+ with an extremely
awkward disk configuration: it has a Western Dig. WX1002 controller
(i.e. an 8-bit card), a miniscribe 40 meg drive, and DiskManager
software. Under AT&T DOS 3.2 the performance is *terrible* -- about
.5 the speed of an IBM-XT according to Norton SI v.4. The disk is
fast enough, and the computer is fast enough, but the controller card
/ Diskmanager software / DOS version / ROM version software is a
disaster.
What can I (I mean, he) do? I don't care if the disk is partitioned
into several drives, but I need more speed. What is AT&T's solution
to this? Is there another disk controller card, or is the controller
built into the motherboard? If so, how does one tell it what kind of
disk one has?
[ps. without Diskmanager things are no faster; under AT&T DOS
3.1 things are no (?) faster]
Thanks,
Sam Wilson
wilson at cunixc.cc.columbia.bitnet
.edu
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