Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!drysdale From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Bridgeboard HD speed (aboot) Message-ID: <16071@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 27 Nov 90 01:06:37 GMT References: <1990Nov19.202344.13666@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 40 In article smp@myamiga.UUCP (Steven M. Palm) writes: >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. The ten meg partition I had > > Well, I have a Seagate ST-157N-1 running on my TrumpCard controller. This is > *not* the Professional model, just the base model. I have a 10 Meg partition > set up, and the Transformer seems much faster. :-( If you ever find out a > method to speed it up, please let me know. > > I ran PerfMon one time while doing some copying... The meter bottomed out > when it accessed the harddrive... Perhaps I'm asking too much from my 2000? if you've got a few hundred K of free memory, do an "addbuffers your_hd: 400" and things will go much more quickly. the problem is that the 1.3 FFS doesn't deal well with random seeks in large files. (ie, it goes slow). don't expect miracles from fake ibm hard drive partitions - they're going to be at least half the speed of a real controller plugged into the PC bus. > >> Thanks, Keith. >> >>-no trite sig. > >----- > {rutgers,ames,gatech}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!myamiga!smp > smp@myamiga.UUCP > --Scotty -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scott Drysdale Software Engineer Commodore Amiga Inc. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!drysdale PHONE (hopefully sometime this year) "Have you hugged your hog today?" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=