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From: jmeissen@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: New GVP Controller
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Date: 21 Sep 90 17:59:05 GMT
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OK, I traded up my C= A2090 to the new GVP Series-II controller. I was
somewhat less than pleased with the amount of effort and time it took
to get it, and the documentation is minimal (I'm being very nice here),
but it came, it installed easily, and came up without problems.

Initial reaction.....I'm quite pleased with the performance. I have no
hard figures to use, but compared to my old A2090 it literally screams!
I can't wait to put some memory on the card.

HOWEVER, there is something I just can't understand. My C= controller
used to autoconfigure and mount the 3 partitions in about 4 seconds
(maybe less, but close enough). The GVP controller, though, takes
=>38<= seconds to do the same thing! It sits there with the disk light
blinking and the heads thrashing around for over half a minute!

Anybody got a clue as to what's going on?


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