About performance: My 6.0.1 system, with a lot of extensions, boots from an Apple High-Speed SCSI card + HD80SC in 42 seconds. -- The same System folder boots from a CF card without my driver in 55 seconds, and *with* my driver in 41 seconds. I was pleased but a little surprised to see the CFFA actually win.
For raw data transfer, since the CFFA does not do DMA, a SCSI card that does do DMA should be able to beat it handily. -- But then again, you also wait for a hard drive to seek and to spin, which a CF card doesn't have to do.
My driver can read 1 MB of data (in a single DRead call from Exerciser) in 14 seconds, and I've already tried pretty hard to optimize the read-two-bytes loop. -- However, my tests are at the standard 2.8 MHz, and a faster processor *will* make a difference.
--Dave Lyons, Mr. Tangent
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