Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2090 HDdisk.device
Summary: New hddisk may not help
Message-ID: <2320@antique.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 19:53:03 GMT
References: <8806280524.AA12822@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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I have the new hddisk.device, version 34.4, and I'm still whining.
Oh, I suppose it works better than  before - before, it just gave
a R/W error requester.  Now, it gets a good 1 kilobyte per second
throughput.  In other words, almost, but not quite, nothing at all.
This with NO overscan, 640 wide, four-plane screen, A2090, Quantum Q280
28ms SCSI drive, Rev. 4.2 motherboard, no FFS.  Just a plain old
vanilla SCSI that ought to be my pride and joy rather than a pain in
the posterior.

(I'm no expert, but, 64 *bytes* of FIFO on the 2090??  Wouldn't 512 as
a minimum, make more sense?  Could that FIFO chip be just popped out
and replaced by a bigger one?)

Commodore!  Yoo-hoo, Commodore!  What do I do NOW?  Help!

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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