Re: TWGS Upgrade Availability?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> Actually, I found (with RamFAST DMA off and Apple DMA on) that the
>> situations you describe (booting System 6.0.1 with stuff and launching
>> AWGS...WITHOUT all modules because that causes AWGS to bug
>> freak) is where the Apple High Speed SCSI is faster.  The RamFAST
>> had 256k of RAM.
>>
>> The reason for our different results might be due to the type of SCSI
>> drive used.  I tested on a really large hard drive with a large cache.
>>
>> The RamFAST's caching is most effective relative the Apple card when
>> the drive is slow and has no built in cache of its own (or a small one).
>
> The drive size could be a factor, I'll have to admit I've never compared
>the cards with any drive over 700mb. On a larger drive the Apple High Speed
>SCSI card could be faster. However on drives 100-700 I found the Ramfast
>with DMA off to be about 15% faster. I wish I'd thought to do a comparison
>when I had a 4 gig hooked up to the RamFast.

That explains it.  I tested with an IBM 1GB drive which had lots of cache.