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On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Michael Vince wrote:

>  Items 3 and 4 significantly increase the performance of the =20
> driver.  On an
>  LSI 320-2X card, transactions per second went from 13,000 to =20
> 31,000 in my
>  testing with these changes.  However, these changes are still fairly
>  experimental and shouldn't be merged to 6.x until there is more =20
> testing.
>   Thanks to Doug Ambrosko, LSI, Dell, and Yahoo for contributing =20
> towards
>  this.

Damn that's awesome!  Thanks to all who helped with this...  This =20
will be great for some of my servers.

Now, does anyone have any numbers to compare this with other RAID =20
cards?  Particularly the 2230SLP? :-)

=05/me wishes LSI maid low profile dual channel cards...