Test notes from two examples of the Stratos CF AztecMonster

-(#2) with 4GB SanDisk 30MB/s on Quadra 950 (#3) internal bus-
  • Formatting with Drive Setup 1.7.3 produced seemingly usable partitions indicating up to 4.5MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Over a gigabyte of mixed files can be copied onto the drive without error, but copying back eventually hangs the system. Drive Setup's block scan completes successfully, but upon restart the OS prompts initialization of two 0KB ProDOS volumes which cannot complete. At this point no other partitions are mountable or recoverable in DiskWarrior.
  • Formatting with Lido 7 produced usable volumes reading about 1.7MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Over a gigabyte of mixed files can be copied onto the drive without error, but copying back produces warnings that some files could not be copied due to disk error. The disk can be used as a boot drive despite this issue.
  • Formatting with Transoft® SCSI Director™ 4.0 produced seemingly usable partitions reading about 4.5MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Copying over a gigabyte of mixed files to one partition completed but counted down to -2 files remaining, then presented a message about the partition being damaged and unusable. Copying about half a gigabyte to the other partition completed with the same negative file count bug, and copying back resulted in one unreadable file. Rebuilding the first partition in DiskWarrior completed, but the program warns a disk malfunction occurred when writing the replacement directory (2351, -36.) The same warning is given for the second partition, but it can re-mount after the failure.
  • Formatting with synchronous mode in MicroNet Utility passed testing and yielded a partition reading about 4.0MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Copying over a gigabyte of mixed files worked, but upon completion the system indicated the disk cannot be used because it cannot be found. Rebuilding the partition in DiskWarrior completed, but the program warns a disk malfunction occurred when writing the replacement directory (2351, -36.) Trying to boot from it caused hangs and bus errors.
  • Formatting with FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0 resulted in functional partitions reading about 1.7MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. 
  • Silverlining Pro passes all parts of the setup phase but finds a regular number of bad blocks (seemingly) evenly dispersed, which prevents the format from completing.
  • MacinStor™ recognizes the device on the built-in SCSI bus but does not support initializing it.
  • Disk Manager Mac® twice hung the system at the same point in block scanning two different 4GB SanDisk CF cards (30MB/s)

-(#2) with 4GB SanDisk 30MB/s on Quadra 950 (#3) Sixty Eight Thousand RAID Warrior-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading over 8.0MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Copying data would usually work, but occasionally the SCSI bus would lock for 10 seconds or more before resuming. Infrequently, the system would not recover from these lockups. Trying to boot from a viable System Folder results in nearly constant lockups, taking over half an hour to boot to desktop when successful.
  • MacinStor™ recognizes the RAID Warrior's bus but cannot detect any devices attached to it, even if they have mounted volumes.
  • Transoft® SCSI Director™ 4.0 recognizes the RAID Warrior's bus but cannot detect any devices attached to it, even if they have mounted volumes.

-(#1) with 128GB SanDisk 120MB/s on Quadra 950 (#3) Sixty Eight Thousand RAID Warrior-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading over 8.0MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Copying data would usually work, but occasionally the SCSI bus would lock for 10 seconds or more before resuming. Infrequently, the system would not recover from these lockups. Trying to boot from a viable System Folder results in nearly constant lockups, taking over half an hour to boot to desktop when successful.
  • MacinStor™ recognizes the RAID Warrior's bus but cannot detect any devices attached to it, even if they have mounted volumes.
  • Transoft® SCSI Director™ 4.0 recognizes the RAID Warrior's bus but cannot detect any devices attached to it, even if they have mounted volumes.

-(#1) with 128GB SanDisk 120MB/s on Quadra 950 (#3) ATTO SiliconExpress IV-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced seemingly usable partitions reading over 8.0MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility, but were not stable and quickly became corrupt.

-(#1) with 128GB SanDisk 120MB/s on Quadra 950 (#4) internal bus-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading about 3.5MB/s (40MHz) in ATTO Performance Utility. No issues with use or bootability detected.

-(#2) with 4GB SanDisk 30MB/s on Quadra 950 (#4) internal bus-
  • Formatting with Drive Setup 1.7.3 produced usable volumes reading about 3.7MB/s (45MHz); 3.5MB/s (40MHz); 2.8MB/s (33MHz) in ATTO Performance Utility. Over a gigabyte of data could be copied onto the volume without issue, but retreival failed for a very small number of files. DiskWarrior could complete a rebuild, but would indicate a disk failure while replacing the directory.
  • Formatting with Lido 7 produced usable volumes reading about 1.7MB/s (45MHz); 0.7MB/s (40MHz); 0.6MB/s (33MHz); 1.0MB/s (75MHz) in ATTO Performance Utility. Over a gigabyte of data could be copied onto the volume and retrieved from it without issue. DiskWarrior can complete a rebuild and successfully replace the directory. No issues with use or bootability detected. 

-(#1) with 128GB SanDisk 120MB/s on Quadra 950 (#4) ATTO SiliconExpress IV-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading about 8.3MB/s (45MHz); 8.3MB/s (40MHz); 8.1MB/s (33MHz); 7.5MB/s (75MHz) in ATTO Performance Utility. No issues with use or bootability detected. DiskWarrior can complete a rebuild and successfully replace the directory.

-(#2) with 4GB SanDisk 30MB/s on Quadra 800 internal/external bus-
  • Formatting with Lido 7 produced usable volumes reading about 1.5MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Over a gigabyte of data could be copied onto the volume and retrieved from it without issue. DiskWarrior can complete a rebuild and successfully replace the directory. No issues with use or bootability detected. 
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading about 4.0MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Over a gigabyte of data could be copied onto the volume and retrieved from it without corruption, though occasionally the SCSI bus would lock up and hang the system. DiskWarrior can complete a rebuild and successfully replace the directory. No issues with use or bootability detected.

-(#2) with 4GB SanDisk 30MB/s on Quadra 800 Sixty Eight Thousand RAID Warrior-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading about 8.0MB/s in ATTO Performance Utility. Copying data would usually work, but occasionally the SCSI bus would lock for 10 seconds ore more before resuming. Infrequently, the system would not recover from these lockups. Trying to boot from a viable System Folder results in nearly constant lockups, taking over half an hour to boot to desktop when successful.
  • MacinStor™ recognizes the RAID Warrior's bus but cannot detect any devices attached to it, even if they have mounted volumes.
  • Transoft® SCSI Director™ 4.0 recognizes the RAID Warrior's bus but cannot detect any devices attached to it, even if they have mounted volumes.

-(#2) with 4GB SanDisk 30MB/s on IIfx Sixty Eight Thousand SCSI Bolt-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading about 9.2MB/s (50MHz) in ATTO Performance Utility. No issues with use or bootability detected. DiskWarrior can complete a rebuild and successfully replace the directory.

-(#2) with 32GB SanDisk 120MB/s on IIfx Sixty Eight Thousand SCSI Bolt-
  • Formatting with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h produced usable volumes reading about 9.5MB/s (50MHz) in ATTO Performance Utility. No issues with use or bootability detected. DiskWarrior can complete a rebuild and successfully replace the directory.