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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Alex wrote:

> My AHA-1542 with a Quantum Lightning was glacial, the oldish WD 212mb hdd
> I had out preformed it easily.

  If you can increase the DMA timings on your motherboard, and this
doesn't upset your other cards, you can get a noticable
performance improvent.  The 1542 defaults to a really safe default
transfer rate.  You can increase it and run a test to verify.

  The main problem is the ISA bus, not SCSI.  The 1542 tries hard to get
around this, but ISA is just a pain.

Tom