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From: fmiller@dobie.UUCP (Fred Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: high speed drives
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Date: 12 Feb 91 04:35:08 GMT
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fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:

>The Micropolis 1684 SCSI drives promise something like 3.9 MS 'effective' 
>access time with something like a 4.0 MB/sec transfer rate.

>Sounds great.

>Anybody use these yet? And how fast are they really? 

>What controllers have you used?

>I'm particularly interested for functionality under SCO UNIX or Xenix.

I think the general concensus is that the "best" host adapter (most SCSI
controllers are on the hard drive) is the Adaptec 1542, current version
is "B".  I haven't used the Micropolis 1684 so maybe someone else can
help you with that.

						Fred

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