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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Blindingly fast disk I/O
Keywords: ESDI SCSI
Message-ID: <1990Feb24.031307.3765@pegasus.com>
Date: 24 Feb 90 03:13:07 GMT
References: <155@zds-ux.UUCP> <511170@nstar.UUCP> <452@shiloh.UUCP> <73@rylos.UUCP> <195@zds-ux.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@pegasus.COM (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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In article <195@zds-ux.UUCP> bjstaff@zds-ux.UUCP (Brad Staff) writes:
>I started this thread awhile back with the query about what SCSI and/or
>ESDI controllers and disks you all liked.  Since email responses seem to
>have stopped, it is time to summarize the responses.
>
>SCSI controllers
>================
>Adaptec AHA-1540A/1542A - I got some favorable comments.
>WD FASST - I got one favorable, one mixed, and one negative comment.
>Mylex - I got one "I've heard it's good" comment.
>

Well I finally got my Mylex DC376 SCSI controller working properly just
yesterday.  Took them months to get me a driver that worked.  It was
working in (slow, 16-bit) Western Digital emulation mode prior to that.

It is reasonably fast.  Mine has the minimum 1-meg of cache.  Here are
some timings using Wren-VI (700 meg) drives, running ISC 2.0.2:

	dd if=/dev/dsk/0s1 of=/dev/null bs=1k count=32768
	time: 2.3u 34.9s 0:24 154%

and with a 32-meg file:

	dd if=/tmp/junk of=/dev/null bs=1k count=32768
	time: 2.3u 41.7s 0:39 112%

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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com