From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 15:15:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02119 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ulantris.infinop.com (root@ulantris.infinop.com [205.230.144.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA02114 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from john@localhost) by ulantris.infinop.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id RAA15826 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:18:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "John A. Booth" Message-Id: <199606112218.RAA15826@ulantris.infinop.com> Subject: Re: Adaptect2940UW vs. BuslogicBT-958 To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:18:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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).