From: Markus Trenkle Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Subject: Re: FWB HDT driver better than Silverlining and PowerTools? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:23:24 +0100 Organization: Institut f. Kristallographie, Uni Erlangen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <32DE39DC.40A1@krist.uni-erlangen.de> References: I've done more testings, maybe things are getting clearer. This time I tried Apple Drive setup 1.2, it installs driver version 8.0.6. Benchmarks from FWB, this time on the Quantum Fireball TM1280: Drive Setup 1.2 (Driver 8.0.6) 2858/4295/5597 [kB/s] 3210/4553/6511 FWB HD Toolkit 2.0 3563/4516/5454 2627/4293/6550 HD SC Setup (Driver 7.3.5) 3154/3650/4004 2891/3785/4204 Seek/access time and Transactions/s omitted, they are roughly equal. The Apple Driver now is equal fast to FWB's, One with better write, the other with better read performance. Obviously, Apple's new driver is much better than the old one. Is there a way to use the new Apple driver on a third party drive? In HD SC Setup there is a easy way to patch the program, is that possible for Drive Setup as well, or is it possiple to copy the driver partition? -- Markus Trenkle e-mail: markus.trenkle@krist.uni-erlangen.de Institut fuer Angewandte Physik, Lehrstuhl fuer Kristallographie Bismarckstrasse 10, 91054 Erlangen, Germany Fon: +49 9131 85 -2119; Fax : +49 9131 85 2733