Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: V/386 + 630Mb ESDI = Trouble?
Message-ID: <1070@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 03:33:13 GMT
References: <781@sdrc.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <781@sdrc.UUCP>, scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
> 
> So, does anyone have any ideas how I can determine exactly where
> the problem is?  Is it the disk, the controller, the hd driver,
> or something else in the kernel?  Has anyone else used large ESDI
> drives with V/386?  It claims to support them, but has anyone
> actually done it?  Help?


I am running a 650 Meg ESDI drive under 386/ix, but the controller I am using
is the DPT caching controller which appears to the system as an st506.

I have 2.5 meg of cache on the controller and have been very impressed 
with the performance.



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