#Windows on a 386bb
05-Jul-93 13:34:39
Sb: #105980-#Windows on a 386bb
Fm: John Gager 71336,624
To: TONY HILL 100121,3556
You can get fair performance using the autoboot Janus partition, but you
need to use the Amiga's "addbuffers" command on the Amiga partition that
contains the fake IBM drive file. CBM recommends at least 30-50 buffers
for every megabyte that you have set up for your IBM drive. I have a 40MB
Janus partition, so my addbuffers is about 1500.
Another thing I'm doing is using DOS-6 with the SmartDrive cache and
DoubleSpace compression. This seems to speed up the drives performance
considerably.
Even though it's not blazingly fast, it is acceptable. The best solution
is to get a IDE controller and put in a seperate HD for your BridgeBoard.
I will be doing that myself shortly.
// John – (Flying via AutoPilot)
\X/ "Worf: To Hell with the Prime Directive – Give the Borg Windows!"