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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:21:39 +1600 (PST)
From:      Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org>
To:        michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com)
Cc:        jgrosch@sirius.com, jlemon@americantv.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.5r -> current upgrade
Message-ID:  <199611010621.WAA12836@superior.truenorth.org>
In-Reply-To: <199611010609.WAA21420@MindBender.serv.net> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at "Oct 31, 96 10:09:30 pm"

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>[NetBSD 1.2 on my machines...]
>>>	486-133MHz:		A little over 6 hours
>>>	Pentium-120MHz:		3:15
>>>	Pentium Pro-200MHz:	1:21
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>[Speaking of FreeBSD on his machine...]
>>3 hours, 15 minutes is about I get on a make world of the Mayday
>>snapshot. I have an ASUS P55T2P4 Triton II 586-120MHz with 16 Meg of ram,
>>512K L2 cache, Adptec 1542cf SCSI controller and 2 1-gig drives.   
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>Ack!  You could do better!  Throw away that old ISA piece of trash and
>get a PCI SCSI controller.  You should be able to get an NCR/Symbios
>53c810 based card for less than $100 from whoever you bought your Asus
>motherboard from.  There is a very definite difference in disk
>performance.  Especially if your hard drive(s) support tagged-command-
>queuing.
>

My new 2940 is sitting right here. I upgrade this weekend. I was trying to
point out that even with a clunker of a controller card one can still get
half way decent performance with a good 586 motherboard.


Josef "Too terse" Grosch

-- 
Josef Grosch       | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! |    FreeBSD 2.1.5
jgrosch@sirius.com |          - John Warfin -          | UNIX for the masses



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