@Cass:
7MB/s? It sounds as if you were using a CV64/3D... real CV64s are faster than that (CV64/3D is a cheap design done quickly, just compare the number of components)... I got more than 9MB/s with my Picasso4 and it has a slow z3 bus...
It's a pity that no one has released an updated (and fixed) buster... it would make normal Z3 cards and PCI solutions much faster...