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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI xfer speed
Date: 5 May 94 14:30:38 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2qa1oe$2ut@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> millerj@sulaco.OES.ORST.EDU (James Miller) writes:

>I am interested in hearing from people running with a BusLogic BT445S.  The
>question that I have is how to increase the transfer rate on my drives.  In
>the manual it says to flip the 6th and 7th switches in bank one on.  I did.
>When I boot up and it shows the listing of the controller card it say
>parity enable (5MB/sec) transfer rate.  I have a SCSI-2 245M Quantum and
>a SCSI-2 540M Quantum.  On the bottom of the drives if two sets of jumpers.
>The one set is for the setting of the SCSI ID.  I am not sure what the
>second set is for, maybe parity or something like that.  I think this
>is the problem with my transfer rate.  If anyone know the trick to
>a faster transfer rate or what each of the jumpers in the second bank
>is please let me know.

Why don't you call Quantum and ask them what those switches do...
	Quantum's phone number is: 800-826-8022

In case you need it, BusLogic's phone number is: 408-492-9090.

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 Michael L. VanLoon                 Iowa State University Computation Center
    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
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