From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 7 10:38:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25872 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:38:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from damon.com (root@damon.com [207.170.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25829 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dap@damon.com) Received: (from dap@localhost) by damon.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) id MAA13328; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:36:33 -0600 (CST) From: Damon Anton Permezel Message-Id: <199801071836.MAA13328@damon.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Performance To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:36:33 -0600 (CST) Cc: donegan@quick.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "Jan 7, 98 08:28:26 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Simon Shapiro sez: " > > On 06-Jan-98 Steven P. Donegan wrote: > > Well Santa was nice to me so I'm now in the market for a nice fast SCSI > > solution. What is the fastest SCSI controller for the PCI bus (Tyan > > Tomcat IIID with 2(ea) 200Mhz Pentiums)? Since I have no SCSI devices yet > > any fast/wide/etc solution would be fine. Also any suggestions on fast > > drives matching your favorite fast controller would be appreciated. If > > there is a web site somewhere with benchmark data a pointer would be > > appreciated. This is all for use with 3.0 current. > > > > TIA (having just bought 2 9-gig SCSI drives, I have but two words...) Fibre channel! Who's working on device drivers for FC cards? FC-AL Seagate drives were about the same price as SCSI-3 last I looked. If anyone needs a FC dd written, I hereby volunteer!