GeForce 040 - sloooow SCSI? :(

[Robert17]

Hi Mike,

I have a GVP 030 Combo Board, the SCSI Isn't that good. With the correct Mask setting to DMA Transfers into 32bit fastram, I get 1700kb/s as you mention, this is using a Mechware SCSI Card reader with an 80x Compact Flash card, But I have had the same results using a real HDD too.

Robert.

[Robert17]

Let us know how you get on using a Zorro GVP SCSI Card with a GVP CPU Board that also has SCSI Onboard - I tried that combination but couldn't get it to work.

Robert.

[Robert17]

I think I may have read somewhere about removing the SCSI Rom from the CPU Board to disable it completely, but I had given up and accepted my 1.7mb/s by this point. I've also noticed the SCSI Uses a lot of CPU Time, have you had any such affects  on your 040 board? (Mine is 030).

Robert.

[Robert17]

Yes it's properly terminated,

Term on controller - Device - Term :-)

Robert.

[Robert17]

Hey mike,

I gauged CPU Usage by using a program called RSCP From Aminet, it measues disk speed and free CPU Use. But before that I noticed the mouse pointer was very slow whilst transferring files or formatting a partition.

Robert.