| From: | Glyn Astill |
| Date: | 30 May 2001 at 22:19:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Max transfer Rates |
--- Neil Bothwick <neil@wirenet.co.uk> wrote: > Glyn
Astill said,
>
> > Max trandfer rate is the speed at which data is
> > read/written to the disk.
>
> No it isn't. Max Transfer is the largest block size
> for data transfers
> to or from the drive. If this is larger than the
> drive's internal buffer
> you can get data corruption.
Oh right, so the max transfer rate is about how the
data is framed when it is sent from the computer to
the disk or vice versa depending on the disks buffer?
> > wouldn't recomend messing with it.
>
> You shouldn't "mess" with it, but you should set it
> to the appropriate
> value for your drive.
>
What would be the effect if the max transfer rate is
set to a smaller value than the one for the disk?
Regards
Glyn Astill
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