Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 13:58:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WD and SD drives with NCR 53C400 card Message-ID: <19970503135825.FR48810@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970503013745.42576@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>; from John-Mark Gurney on May 3, 1997 01:37:45 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970502203441.11527H-100000@Kryten.nina.org> <19970502203633.45646@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <19970503092932.MV50905@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970503013745.42576@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > I have a T128 which has a NS5380, which I believe is suppose to be similar > to the NCR53C400 parts... but their performance is terible, that I never > spent much time... If I remeber right, a simple double speed cdrom drive > would take my old 486/dx40 to it's knees... something like 83-87% cpu > time for the card... and I still didn't get max throughput on the cdrom... > > definately invest the money in a real scsi card... :-) You don't need to convince me for a busmaster DMA card, vs. PIO mode. :-) I for sure know the difference... But sometimes, if you want to connect just a tape drive only to a foreign machine, using such a 53C400 board might be an option. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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