Blizzard PPC + scsi drive

[kreciu]

I finally get to test scsi HDD in my Blizzard PPC and I'm disappointed or to say it nicer not as happy as I would like to be .

When I check speed of this HDD (10000 rpm, 40gb HDD) I'm getting MAX 10Mb/s. ONLY that much. Sure, it is way better then standard IDE controller and system runs VERY nice . However, my FastAta with CF card get ~7Mb/s and have instant access time.

Can someone show me some benchmarks from Blizzard PPC and scsi drive, I can't find it? What is your experience with scsi?

If you have any ideas, please let me know I'm 100% new to scsi devices and Amiga .

[kreciu]

That is EXACTLY what I was looking for . Those 10Mb/s is not bad, but I saw Cyberstorm PPC and I think it did something like 20Mb/s. I wish AmigaOS4.1 would support scsi on BPPC .

Thank you for clarification!

[kreciu]

Good to know. I really think that maxed our A4000 is really, really nice machine! Maybe someday I will play with it.

I need to say that scsi (despite 10Mb/s) limit is still very fast for Amiga use and my HDD is really quiet. I got used to CF cards, and didn't want regular HDD (my Amiga is really, really quite), but good HDD and all is good.

I just copied 1GB of data from CF to my SCSI drive and it took literally few minutes. NICE!

[kreciu]

I will ask here. Is there any way to "defragment" Amiga HDD? Is this necessary for AmigaOS?