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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive & Chip Contention
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Date: 28 Mar 89 01:25:28 GMT
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> Not so.  The problem is that the disk overruns the 2090's tiny little buffer.
> The faster the disk, the more likely the overrun.  Case in point, my older
> Miniscribe (68 ms) drive had no noticeable problem, but my Quantum Q280
> (28 ms) has the abovementioned severe problem.  BTW, I am using a 2090 not

Ahhh, this make sense.  With a 2090 and the latest drive software and my
CDC Wren III, I never could get a 4-bitplane DPaint picture to load, no 
matter how long I waited---even if I pulled the DPaint screen 90% of the
way down.  Thanks for clearing that up!

-tom