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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:29:51 +0200
From:      Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To:        Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sym driver 0.3.0 
Message-ID:  <199909291429.PAA03731@zed.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: Message from Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>  of "Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:01:34 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.3.95.990928175444.399A-100000@localhost> 

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> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Mattias Pantzare wrote:
> =

> > > You test is not serious. If you only can provide 1.5MB/second throu=
ghput
> > > for a benchmark of SCSI driver, please go away or make comparison w=
ith an
> > > AHA 1542. I consider your posting to be a bad joke and hope that it=
 is not
> > > intentionnaly just bad taste. =

> > =

> > Why is it not serious?? A SCSI driver has to be fast even for slow de=
vices =

> > even if it can drive very fast devices. It is more important to be fa=
st =

> > on slow devices as those are the most likly to be a problem!
> > =

> > 30% is a real problem, and a mixture of slow and fast devices on the =
same SCSI =

> > 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 provid=
e
> 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.

Or the driver is doing things wrong. =


You may have a valid point in that the device is not doing things acordin=
g to =

the SCSI spec, but you can't dissmiss the test only becouse you never use=
 slow =

devices on a fast SCSI buss (that is, do not live in the real world :-)




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