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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RLL controler for Maxtor xt-1140
Message-ID: <458@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 01:43:19 GMT
References: <1576@mipos3.intel.com> <25cc5b9a:18.1comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <25cc5b9a:18.1comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:

| I would suggest the Adaptec 2372C controller.  Many folks are using the 
| WD1006VSR2 but I (as well as others) have experienced problems using it
| in extremely loaded multitasking/multiuser installations.

  I covered this in some detail in another posting, but just to clarify,
there seems to be a lockup problem when running Xenix or UNIX on the WD
with two drives. I'm told there is a patch for ix/386, and that it
doesn't happen on a single drive system. The WD is about 3:1 faster than
the Adaptek on Xenix.
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