TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.DCA.MIL (03/21/89)
I was browsing through a local magazine store and picked up a copy of Call-A.P.P.L.E. (first time I'd seen it; now I have to decide whether to subscribe to it or to A2-Central.) Anyway, it has the second part of an article on hard drives that among other things says essentially that if you are running under GS/OS you get better performance with drives that have "native" device drivers rather than ones that use the generic SCSI driver that comes with GS/OS. Could anyone explain what that is all about and whether it is worth beating on Everex to come up with a GS/OS driver? (or, conversely, how big a job it would be to write one.) The article implies it has something to do with running in fast RAM rather than 1 usec peripheral RAM, but I wonder if that's all. (and if that is the case, how would something like a Transwarp GS affect the equation?) TMPLee@dockmaster.arpa