From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Sep 28 8:40:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from front6m.grolier.fr (front6m.grolier.fr [195.36.216.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C683F15723 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groudier@club-internet.fr) Received: from localhost (ppp-116-185.villette.club-internet.fr [194.158.116.185]) by front6m.grolier.fr (8.9.3/No_Relay+No_Spam_MGC990224) with SMTP id RAA02394; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:40:37 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:01:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerard Roudier X-Sender: groudier@localhost To: Mattias Pantzare Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sym driver 0.3.0 In-Reply-To: <199909272236.XAA11345@zed.ludd.luth.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > > You test is not serious. If you only can provide 1.5MB/second throughpu= t > > for a benchmark of SCSI driver, please go away or make comparison with = an > > AHA 1542. I consider your posting to be a bad joke and hope that it is = not > > intentionnaly just bad taste.=20 >=20 > Why is it not serious?? A SCSI driver has to be fast even for slow device= s=20 > even if it can drive very fast devices. It is more important to be fast= =20 > on slow devices as those are the most likly to be a problem! >=20 > 30% is a real problem, and a mixture of slow and fast devices on the same= SCSI=20 > bus is common. If a SCSI device behaves slower with a faster SIM/HA pair then there is a probably some problem in the SCSI device. If my goal had been to provide fast stuff for either slow and/or shitty SCSI devices I would certainly not have spent a single second of my life to SCSI/PCI. G=E9rard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message