[Techtoolslist] Upgrade 68000 in 9100?
Tony Jones
tony at tonyjones.com
Wed Sep 18 08:31:35 EDT 2019
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 4:06 AM Andrew Welburn <andy at andysarcade.net> wrote:
> The bottleneck in the 9100A is the disk controller, every time. You could
> get the cpu running faster but you would still be waiting for that SCSI
> controller, even if it’s ultimately running a CF card.
>
Not my experience. If your 9100A came with the GPIB option you have the
identical SCSI controller card as used on the 9100FT (as it's this card
that provides the IEEE). Bottom line the 9100FT boots far faster than the
9100A when using identical SCSI controllers and SCSI hard drives.
>
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