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From: MDOELL%DOSUNI1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Magnus Doell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Is anyone using Minix with a Seagate ST-02 controller?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 17:07:50 GMT
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On Sat, 13 Apr 91 16:12:24 GMT Douglas Pokorny said:
>kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>
>>I am currently running Minix-386 with Magnus Doell's ST-02 SCSI driver.  His
>>driver does buffering, so it's reasonably fast (up to 500K/sec or so on my

To make it clear: My driver doen't do buffering. It just handles the
scattered io in a better way than do_vrdwt in misc.c does.

>>system).  If there's interest, I'll post it to the net (if Magnus has no
>>objections, of course :-).

Kevin, feel free to post the old version. My next version will come in 2-4
weeks if nothing disastres happens.

>Please post! There are quite a few of us out here who use scsi drives with
>the "poor man's" ST-02.  (It may not have a Megabyte/sec xfer rate, but
>its faster than a 1:1 MFM drive!)

Douglas, the ST-0x is better than you guess. I have got about 1M/s with my
driver and a friends hd (a good and great one) on raw device (without the
FS). But with FS this will slow down to about 500k/s.

MaD