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From: ill@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Illenseer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone used D.P.T.'s Smart Connex SCSI controller ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.182618.25301@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: 29 Aug 90 18:26:18 GMT
References: <1990Aug25.171947.13601@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) writes:

>I read in an add in Byte that D.P.T.'s Smart Connex SCSI controller looks
>like just a 'normal' controller (no special drivers needed). Has anyone
>used this beasty ? What do you think of it ? What sort of transfer rates do
>you get ? Where can it be bought ? (I only managed to find one place in the
>Sept. 90 Computer Shopper that sold it ... for $307 US).

>	Advance Thanx,
>	fred
Yeah. If it was this beast, you mean here, this thing has a 68000 processor, and
can be popped up with 8 MB of Cache. No Drivers, no other hardware needed.
I remember that it was increadably fast. The seek time was below 1 ms (!), the
rates was up to 2 Meg/sec (max for ISA-Bus). It is using a special look-ahead
cache to fill the Cache. If you can by it for $300, then buy it !!!!!
CU, Markus
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   Markus Illenseer                I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid, I can't do that. 
     4790 Paderborn ,United Germany           Email: ill@uni-paderborn.de 
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