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From: neese@cpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO and hard disk errors
Message-ID: <6800003@cpe>
Date: 30 Jun 88 14:40:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cpe.UUCP!neese    Jun 30 09:40:00 1988


Another solution is to use SCSI Hard Drives.  Tandy is now selling a version
of SCO (called 2.2.4) which has support for the Tandy 16 Bit Intelligent SCSI
Host Adapter.  Flaw management is completely transparent to the user and is
much more elegant than any other solution I have ever seen.  The speed is
also remarkable.  With two of the SCSI drives, disk throughput is 83% faster
than the Compaq's 130MB ESDI drive.  Not to mention that CPU overhead is
about 1/2 that of associated ST506/ESDI controllers due to the First Party
DMA approach Tandy uses.  As I also understand it, Tandy will be the only
vendor who will have 2.2.4.  There are also numerous fixes to the kernel
over 2.2.[12].


						Roy Neese
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