Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!usenet
From: bmalohn@csulb.edu (bill malohn)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Toshiba 3401 Performance
Date: 26 May 1994 06:53:43 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Lines: 22
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <BMALOHN.94May25235343@tern.csulb.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: tern.csulb.edu

I just bought a Toshiba XM-3401B and am using my PAS-16 SCSI controller.  The 
performance has been pretty disappointing so far.  MPC Wizard 2 gave me the
following numbers:  Transfer rate at 100% CPU utilization: 285K/s
				      60%  "    "    "   : 208
				      40%  "    "    "   : 136
It also gave me a reading of 33ms access time.  What the hell is that?
Also, Myst has been giving me problems.  Whenever I try to change a number in
the cauldron room, the game will not respond to any input, even though I can
still move the mouse around.  There is a little static during most of the 
sounds too.  Audio CD's sound very good though.
My system is a 486 DX2-50, 256K cache, ISA bus, PAS-16 (using version 3.12 of
TSLCDR.SYS), 8 Megs, Trident 8900C (using version 5.1 drivers), MSCDEX.EXE
version 2.23 (using 20 buffers).
Could someone please give me some suggestions for improving performance?  From
what I've heard, the PAS-16 isn't the best controller in the world, to say
the least even though its supposedly capable of sustaining a 690K/s transfer
rate, though there must be more to it than that.  Anyway all comments and 
suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill