#Emplant
Hank,
About the only thing you could do is to increase the amount of
RAM for the device buffer to the 256k max. That may improve
performance at the margin for i/o, but it won't likely make a major
difference. There's really little you can do other than move up to
an '040. Emplant is pretty efficient at running right at the limits
of what the cpu is capable of doing. Basic benchmarks usually rate
the emulator near its equivalent Mac. The major exceptions will be
in video and floppy drive performance, which are generally slower
than the equivalent Mac.
As for hard drive performance, obviously a faster hard drive is better
than a slow one regardless of the target hardware. If you run the Iomega off
the Emplant scsi, you can improve performance by running it as an Amiga device
of the Amiga scsi if your scsi card provides higher throughput than the
Emplant's scsi. The Emplant's scsi isn't exactly slow, but it isn't as fast as
a good scsi card in the Amiga.