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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FFS with 512 byte buffers
Message-ID: <748@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 89 19:10:18 GMT
References: <2188@van-bc.UUCP> <4263@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <4263@hubcap.UUCP> disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) writes:
>[Assuming for the moment that he meant 512 and not 512K]
>
>I'll bet large sums that he's running the Pacific Periph. Overdrive.  I've been
>running at this level, because that's all the driver software will take.
>(I assume that it's the software that's the problem.)  The system will
>guru when loading executables, if the MaxTransfer is set higher than 1
>block at a time.

This is not a problem with the Overdrive (at least not mine).  I've had
it up to 1,000,000 with no problems, but also no gain in speed.  I
currently use about 40,000(?).  (I'm at home, it's at work.)  Periodic
calls to Pac. Per. indicate that the autobooting daughterboard with
updated drivers has yet to be released to them by the developing engineer.
This is the upgrade promised for the end of the year.  I thought they
meant last year.  :-)