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From: akcs.clemon@wcbcs (Craig Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga HD slow with 2088
Message-ID: <[25fd70b7:53.1]comp.sys.amiga.hardware;1@wcbcs>
Date: 19 Mar 90 18:12:09 GMT
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>I have an older 2088 bridgeboard (boot up says PC-Emulator BIOS 3.4).  I
>have a partition on my Amiga HD reserved for an autobooting MS-DOS drive.
>My problem is that things appear to be really S-L-O-W loading from it.  I
>have several programs (notably PSPICE) that take about 3-4 minutes (longer?)
>to load and *begin* execution, but these programs load on an XT in a fraction
>of a minute.  Running Norton's SI gives the expected 1.0 performance rating
>and a 0.9 hard drive rating.


   YOu think that's slow.  Try running a PC HD on the Bridgecard and a JANUS
partition on the Amiga side.  The IBM drive transfers data at a maximum of
11K/sec.  Now THAT's a slow harddisk.  0.9 HD performance isn't that bad. 
The actual problem is the bottleneck from the Amiga to the IBM bridgecard
because of BUS limitations.  If you are getting 90% of full IBM speed I
wouldn't complain too awful much.  If someone has gotten better maybe they
did something different in their partitioning and such but I doubt you will
ever get more than the 90% reading.

PS. I have not had any experience with Amiga to IBM HD's except for JLINK
but I used to use a JANUS partition from IBM to Amiga.
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