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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SCSI and 386/ix
Keywords: scsi 9380s under 386/ix
Message-ID: <189@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 90 02:30:02 GMT
References: <25c1fdd8:490comp.unix.i386@nstar.UUCP> <288@odicon.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <288@odicon.UUCP> jlg@odicon.UUCP (John L. Grzesiak) writes:
>In article <25c1fdd8:490comp.unix.i386@nstar.UUCP>, akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
}8 Mb transfer to null with : dd if=/dev/dsk/0s1 of=/dev/null bs=8k count=1024.
}
}RLL -wd1003            ESDI -wd1007vse2          SCSI -adaptec 1542A
}CDC-85 mb              CDC-182 10mbps            CDC-385H
}3:1 interleave         1:1 interleave            1:1 interleave
}no track buffering     track buffer cached       Read Ahead Enabled
}
}  raw 1:32.4           raw 12.2                  raw 13.8
}block   57.3         block 14.0                block 13.5
}
}Notes:
}	The track buffering on the WD1006vsr2 will be closer to the ESDI
} performance but will not boot or run ISC 2.0.1. or 2.0.2. The Adaptec

Works fine! Don't know why you can't get it to run. I didn't have any
problems installing on an WD1006.

  raw: 17.0
block: 15.1

This is still the cheapest way to go for small systems. For either Xenix or
UNIX.


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