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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard)
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Subject: Re: Ultrastor ESDI controller compatible w/ SVR4?
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Date: 24 Sep 90 19:39:19 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.021133.8518@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>,
teoh@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu writes:
> According the ad. specs, the controller (12F or 32F) is capable of 
> getting the average of 20mbps. It has 32K cache though it may have 
> only little use for UNIX but works great for DOS.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't understand this statement, it makes no sense.  The cache is 
very beneficial to both, although it would tend to make MORE of a 
difference under UNIX than DOS.  There is usually a lot more disk
I/O under UNIX than a normal dos machine.

> The price and performance ratio is pretty good. 
> 
> I'm planning to have a combo of Ultrastor and Maxtor 8380E,
> is this configuration allowed for use w/ SVR4?
> Any other recommendations? Vendors' advice is welcome.

This controller works very well under both V3.2 and V4 (at least our 
version ;-) anyway).

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