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From: bjc@smunews.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2286 AT / Disk drive
Message-ID: <16346@smunews.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 05:05:26 GMT
References: <3916@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <16322@smunews.UUCP> <3961@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: bjc@smunews.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX
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In article <3961@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> zupke@mars.UUCP (Brian Zupke) writes:
>In article <16322@smunews.UUCP> bjc@smunews.UUCP (Betty J. Clay) writes:
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>>SoftWarehouse in Dallas, and is a 30M card, RLL.  It works beautifully.  
>>Not fast, but dependable.  it comes with installation software that makes
>
>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
>
>-Brian



The hardcard is not THAT slow!  It is a little slow about booting, but
works just fine while I'm using the bridgeboard.  I used one of these with
an d XT bridgeboard before I got the AT, and it worked fine with it, too.
The slow boot may be due to the way I set up the system, rather than the
Quantum40 on the Amiga side ( something like 19ms) it seems painfully
slow at times.  Compared to a floppy or to using part of the Amiga drive,
it is very fast indeed.

Betty
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disk itself.  I think it is rated at 65 ms, though, and compared to the