SCSI is mine greatest enemy. (Performance on a 486)

[--Damacus-- <damacus@bastion.cnsnet.net>]

OK, I've got two questions to ask tonight:

1--
My current primary Linux system is a 486/DX4 75.  It's sufficient for quite a
few things and currently holds an important role on my LAN:

- Modem router (Gotta love 30 static IPs via an analog connection.. for FREE
  :)  )
- SAMBA server to Family files (and mp3s, other files, etc)
- Local DNS caching system
- NFS server (for other Linux comps, currently just my laptop P-266 is the
  only other Linux box.)

Anyhow, I have on it 8.7GB in it-- 5GB SCSI, 3.7 IDE.  This comp has an only
ISA (8MHz) bus, thus an Adaptec ISA card, and when xferring files from 1 SCSI
drive to another, or 1 SCSI drive to another comp (mainly via SMB) , or even
just untarring a file on a SCSI drive things CRAWL.  The modem seems to just
sit there and does nothing.  Many a times, I'll be untarring a 80M file or so,
and from another room I'll hear "Goodbye." followed by many explenitives as my
dad's AOL connection times out.

Q- Is there any way to give SCSI access a lower priority, or give
serial/network a higher priority as to not make them unusable under high IO
loads?

2--
This is somewhat odd.  I've recently nistalled screen, and mostt everything is
fine, however, in some cases, backspace comes out as ^?.  I've seen this only
with VIM.  And with vim, only when it's spawned by mutt (when composing email
messages, etc)    

Q-- Is there any way to remap ^? to backspace directly under vim?

--The one, tired, term paper writing, Mike David.

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