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From: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compuadd Disk Controller?
Message-ID: <423@khijol.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 05:21:29 GMT
References: <201@sixhub.UUCP> <[257922a9:368.1]comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Organization: Deadly Force, Inc., aka Clint Eastwood School of Diplomacy
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In article <[257922a9:368.1]comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@nstar.UUCP> akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>  Has anyone tried the caching ESDI controller from Compuadd? Especially
>>with Xenix or UNIX. THis could be a cheap alternative to the DTP.
>
>I would like to know if they are marketing an OEM version of the DPT
>controller - or exactly who is making their controller.   Maybe if there
>were some benchmarks on caching controllers?

CompuAdd does publish the benchmarks on the ESDI caching controller - and
the controller is made in-house.  It works with SCO XENIX, ISC's UNIX,
Bell Technologies UNIX, and Microport UNIX.  At least those where the ones
I worked on this last summer.  I was responsible for making sure the
controller worked on those products.

We ran SCO, ISC, etc. for a week or so, running find, ps, greps, etc.
on multiple windows - really loading the system down.  I, along with Paul
Tichler (Lord of Firmware :-) ), and the other gurus at CompuAdd, debugged
the firmware so that it'd run on just about everybody's [XE|U]NIX.
And there were some wierd ones, I'm here to tell you....

If I remember right, we ran better than the DPT controller - but I don't
remember by how much.
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