Re: TWGS Upgrade Availability?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

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

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> Only under ProDOS 8.  A RamFAST with DMA off will be slower than
>> an Apple High Speed SCSI card with DMA on UNDER GS/OS on an
>> accelerated IIGS.
>
>  What I timed was booting System 6.0.1 with all the desk accessories,
drivers,
>inits,etc, I've Installed. Also tried booting AppleWorksGS with all modules.
>
>Could you give me an example of something specific that the Apple High Speed
>SCSI card does faster.

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).