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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A2090 SCSI vs Video contention - here we go again!
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Date: 10 Dec 88 17:13:14 GMT
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> The old video-contention vs SCSI bugaboo is back, in FFS -- could
> someone knowledgeable about Amiga file systems please take a moment to
> peruse this problem?

  I wonder...  I have seen this mentioned by a lot of people, and have been
asking around about it.  I have spoken with people who have the problem,
and those that don't.  There doesn't seem to be any consistent
configuration that causes problems, nor one that works well.

  I can load a 640*400*4 picture into DPaint2 in 4 seconds from a hard
drive running FFS, with none of the 'retry' sounds from the drive reported
by those that have problems. This is true for both the 2090 I had, and the
2090A I have now, on a number of different drives, both SCSI and ST506.
I don't run FAstmemFirst (I removed the 512K from $C00000, as it was
too slow on my German designed A2000). I too run 1.3 SetPatch, and my
hddisk.device is 34.4 (5 May 1988). My FastFileSystem is V34.85(8/10/88).

  Others I have spoken with have had the US designed 2000, and have
had no problem, so it isn't that.  I don't have any idea what it is, but
perhaps with enough input, we can figure it out, perhaps even before you
throw your 2090 off a tall building.

-larry

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