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From: a516@mindlink.UUCP (Jordan Melville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Computer slow since installation of SCSI drive
Message-ID: <4076@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 90 20:33:19 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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I recently got a new Quantum 210Meg SCSI drive, and notice that
since I got the drive, the video output has been substantially
slower (to a level where it is visibly noticeable, I can see screen
updates lag behind what they used to). Norton's SI still returns
the same values for processor speed, and the system gets the same
MIPS value. Could the SCSI drive have anything to do with this?
It's running on a Future Domain SCSI controller (model TMC-885),
inside of a 20Mhz 386 machine. I'm using ATI's VGAWonder card. The
drive is partitioned with the software provided with the drive with
two 105Meg separations. I am loading the dmdrvr.bin program that
came with it.

One other thing, should I set the SCSI board to run with 0 wait
state? Why or why not?

Jordan.

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