Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:18:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "John A. Booth" <john@ulantris.infinop.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptect2940UW vs. BuslogicBT-958 Message-ID: <199606112218.RAA15826@ulantris.infinop.com>
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My fingers just don't want to type questions correctly. > > one important issue is whether you really need ultrawide at all. the disks > > certainly can't keep up, so it only matters if you have lots of drives on the > > same chain, in which case you may be better off using multiple regular fast scsi > > controllers. > I keep seeing drives that are ultra-wide spec'd at 40 megab(it/yte?)s per second. > > > Okay BSD users (both BSD/OS 2.1 and FreeBSD), which SCSI-3 UltraWide > > > controller is superior (performance wise), the BusLogic BT-958 OR the > > > Adaptec 2940UW? I've heard it both ways. Someone told me that the BusLogic > I believe the 2940UW would be better supported in FreeBSD--have no idea about BSDI, I heard about some problems with the ultra support but I think it was cleared up (in current).
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