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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Recommendations for fixed-disk SCSI Controllers
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.010051.10563@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 01:00:51 GMT
References: <1990Dec28.233946.7381@csn.org> <1991Jan1.001438.8021@cimcor.mn.org>
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mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier) writes:

>From article <1990Dec28.233946.7381@csn.org>, by mre@ngdc2.colorado.edu (Marcus O. Ertle):
>Seagate ST-01 controller. I've made heavy modifications to the
>Public Domain driver for UNIX and am acheiving speeds twice
>that of the Adaptec controller on the same drive.
>(Though I'm testing it against the ESIX scsi implementation
> which if like their other drivers has probably has problems.

I've heard that throughput with the 1542B under ESIX is very
slow - a fraction of what is obtained under Interactive Unix.
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