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From: rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2000 HD controllers opions and or help
Message-ID: <02209.AA02209@babylon>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:25:16 GMT
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In article <26220131.7262@paris.ics.uci.edu>
lgulyas@ics.uci.edu (Laszlo Gulyas) writes:

> I own a GVP SCSI + 8 controller for the 2000, but I have
> the ST296N drive.
> [...]
> - Mediocre speed on the ST296 (about 140K useing Dperf2
> and interleave 1)

That's a bit too low, I'd say. Sure, Seagates aren't the
fastest drives in the world, but when I tested a Seagate on
my GVP controller, I got twice as much (with an empty hard
disk, of course). With a Quantum ProDrive you'll get almost
500K on a standard A2000. Maybe you should upgrade to the
latest version of their software?

> I must have an early version of the card as it is only #9
> serial number wise. But it seems OK so far.

Don't forget that you have one of their latest board
revision (SCSI plus 8 megs of RAM). There have been several
boards before this one.

> The software is easy to use if you want their default set
> ups (you can change size of partitions, but to change
> buffer size you must exit out and run the program with the
> option ASKALL).

I think you don't have to leave the automatic installation.
It should be possible to type a '?' in response to one of
the questions in their script. Don't know which one, but
it's mentioned in the manual somewhere.

> Laszlo Gulyas

Ralph

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