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From: zupke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian Zupke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2286 AT / Disk drive
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Date: 7 Jun 90 17:40:14 GMT
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In article <16322@smunews.UUCP> bjc@smunews.UUCP (Betty J. Clay) writes:

>SoftWarehouse in Dallas, and is a 30M card, RLL.  It works beautifully.  
>Not fast, but dependable.  it comes with installation software that makes
>it a snap to get it going, and the bridgeboard recognizes it automatically.
>
>Betty 
>=========================================================================
>Betty Clay
>76702.337@compuserve.com
>==========================================================================

Thanks for the tip!  I do have a question though.  You say that it's not fast.
How does it compare to a bootable partition on the Amiga side of the system?
My experience is that this kind of setup is extremely slow!  For example, when
I load WordPerfect 5.1, it takes a very long time to come up.  Then, whenever
I invoke a function that causes an overlay to load (I'm assuming this), the
disk drive light flickers for a painstakingly long time before that function
is available.  It just about makes the program useless.  Does this sound right
as far as execution time goes for an Amiga partition used by MS-Dos or am I
doing something wrong?

-Brian