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From: zardoz!uninet!neil@uunet.uu.net (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Bus performance (SCSI & S-Bus)
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 20 Nov 89 09:28:02 GMT
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In article <2821@brazos.Rice.edu> sg04@gte.com (Steven Gutfreund) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 187, message 9 of 18
>SCSI:
>Why do the spec sheets claim that an ASYNC SCSI runs at 1.5Mbyte/sec and a
>SYNC SCSI at 4.0Mbytes/sec (I asssume peak).

We get over 2.5 Mbyte/sec ASYNC SCSI xfer rate on our new box.  The spec
must be very conservative.