Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:43:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602050943.KAA04598@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602050426.PAA27801@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 5, 96 03:26:18 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >Yes, but this is not exactly fair. Your SCSI controller only has 5 times > >the command overhead as your IDE card (because you have a very poor SCSI > >controller). > Should I upgrade to a ST01 controller? ;-) The controller overhead was > almost irrelevant for the Minix-IDE setup because the disk activity LED > only blinked on for a second or two out of the 17 seconds. Jumping in a bit late here. I've got some piece of obsolete hardware where i can make a fair comparision if you want. (386/16, 5-year old ST1144A IDE drive vs. a nifty but flakey MXT-1280 SCSI drive hanging on an AHA-1540A.) -- 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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