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From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga HD slow with 2088
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Date: 16 Feb 90 18:16:16 GMT
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I have an older 2088 bridgeboard (boot up says PC-Emulator BIOS 3.4).  I
have a partition on my Amiga HD reserved for an autobooting MS-DOS drive.
My problem is that things appear to be really S-L-O-W loading from it.  I
have several programs (notably PSPICE) that take about 3-4 minutes (longer?)
to load and *begin* execution, but these programs load on an XT in a fraction
of a minute.  Running Norton's SI gives the expected 1.0 performance rating
and a 0.9 hard drive rating.

Does anyone else have this problem, or know what could be causing this?!
That partition is Amiga FFS formatted if that makes a difference, but I 
have not changed the mask or anything as I have not had problems or
errors in reading from the HD (Seagate ST277N).


Dan Griffin
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu		"We're waiting for Godot..."