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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
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Subject: Is a 486 fast enough for SCSI?
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  I've got a AMD486DX4100 with an Adaptec 2940 and two SCSI drives.  When 
I run iozone on one drive I get about 1.9MB/s, but when I run a iozone on 
each drive I get about .9 MB/s (roughly half).  Since the SCSI bus runs 
at 10MB/s per second, the limiting factor appears to be the CPU?  I 
thought PCI devices required very little CPU time?

Tom