Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:02:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Bob Loftus <bobster@primenet.com> Cc: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: Adaptec2940UW vs. BusLogicBT-958 (opinions?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960612150027.11030B-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960612093106.6005A-100000@usr2.primenet.com>
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On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Bob Loftus wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Jacob M. Parnas wrote: > > Would you please elaborate a bit on the logic? I don't see why with up to > > 15 devices, you couldn't fill up 40MB/sec for a fast/wide/ultra SCSI III bus? > > Especially with some raids counting as one large SCSI device? > I did. http://www.nexial.nl/cgi-bin/bsdi search for "fast wide scsi > paul vixie" That should do it. One would have to question the wisdom of > putting that many devices in a chain on one bus. But hey maybe you could > teach me something, I'm sure no expert. Yet. ;-> > Regards, > Bob... > Ive been watching this thread - Im one of those people in need of many fast drives and am seeking a better solution that a regular pci 2940 and regular scsi-2 drives. They+freebsd just dont do it thruput wise for a very full news server. I have found hat one gets better thruput if you have 4 2 gig drives than if you have 1 8. So there is one reason for alot of drives.
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