CompuServe Messages

Yes, you were right. I went for the hardcard when the omti + 33 proved to be unreliable for autobooting. The omti would return 'ready' before the drive was, and cold autobooting never worked. Warm boots were usually ok. I also got occassional read/write errors that I could never totally eliminate. The seagate may be slow to get ready, but is very well behaved so far otherwise. The 2090a had problems because of the way it handled dma; this was supposed to be both a hardware and a software problem. Khalid released a newer driver that is said to reduce the trouble, but not eliminate it. The 2091 is supposed to be much better behaved. At any rate, the Kronos is NOT dma (no matter what you think of dma) and cannot have this issue. It does use up cpu time, though. It is also fast. Theoretically, a faster cpu will cause it to run faster. I'm also told that on a very fast drive the Kronos will be very fast. One way or another I'm quite satisfied with my Kronos based hard card. Ron