Re: [WinMac] OrangePC Blues....

Romeyn Prescott(prescor[at]potsdam.edu)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:09:06 -0500

>12) Would disk access speed be improved if I were to add a seperate SCSI
>drive just for use by OrangePC? Say for example I were to add a 4Gb disk
>with a couple of PC disk images? I ask this because I'm using the
>OrangePC for software development (though not testing) If I start a
>compile on Windows and then move to the Mac to work there, I find that
>occasionally the Mac freezes for a view seconds and I can't type. This is
>only an inconvenience no data is lost and it catches up again. I assume
>it's the OrangePC application hogging the processor a little, but I
>wonder what it was doing that needed it.
>
>

This was a BIG peeve of mine and I didn't really notice it until I slapped
a second display on the Orange card so I could see what was going on. I
had an OrangePC card with it's OWN SCSI drive. Anytime you switch back to
the Mac the PC will CRAWL! Like a SNAIL. This was easy to see with two
monitors. I'd start, say, a large file transfer and it would clip right
along. Then I'd switch to the Mac and change to another application and it
was like I threw up a brick wall; the file transfer would morph into
molasses. As soon as I switched back to the OrangePC app, it sped up again.

I want to go on the record as saying that this sucks. Tech support told me
there was nothing I could do (I also suggested a second SCSI card) but they
said it would not make a difference.

:-(

...ROMeyn

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