From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 7 11:18:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29809 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (nomis.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA29800 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:18:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@nomis.Simon-Shapiro.ORG) Received: (qmail 1636 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Jan 1998 19:19:01 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-010198 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801071836.MAA13328@damon.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 11:19:01 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Damon Anton Permezel Subject: Re: SCSI Performance Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, donegan@quick.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 07-Jan-98 Damon Anton Permezel wrote: > "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! This was my recommendation to nCUBE and Intel for their respective MPP several years ago. The difference in perfromance in unbelivable. > Who's working on device drivers for FC cards? I am. > FC-AL Seagate drives were about the same price as SCSI-3 last I looked. Huh? And the optical-copper converter (whatever the name is :-) ? And the controller? > If anyone needs a FC dd written, I hereby volunteer! And what is an FC dd ? Ah, FCAL Device Driver. For which controller? ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313