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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Bridgeboard HD speed (aboot)
Message-ID: <3868@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 90 20:51:48 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <1990Nov19.202344.13666@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
galocy@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Keith B Galocy) writes:

>I just bought a new 330meg SCSI for my 2091 controller.  It's really
>fast on the Amiga (15-17ms or so) but the partition I set up for my
>bridge card is dragging in a major way.

     I've always found that a bridge board partition on an Amiga's
hard disk is unacceptably slow, even with just a five-megabyte
partition.  The bottleneck seems to be in in the interface between
the bridge board and the Amiga, not the drive itself.  I wound up
giving the bridge board its own dedicated hard drive (a hard card
in an IBM slot) and it zips right along.  I do MS-DOS software
development on my 2500/2286; it's nice not to have to clutter my
desk with one of those Incredibly Boring Machines.  :-)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
MS-DOS: I hate it, but I use it - twice a day.