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From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to get better SCSI performance?  [FreeBSD 1.1R/AHA1542Cf
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 94 11:22:42 -0500
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Ben Jackson <bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu> writes:
 
>This gives me about 700K/s, which still isn't very good...  Even the
>slower of the two drives did 1.5M/s sustained when it was connected to
>an Amiga...  I'd like to get some of that back.  :-)
 
Hmmm...
It could be that read-ahead caching is not enabled for the drive???  Our
SCSI stuff doesn't change the caching.  On a Micropolis 2217 I get
2.8-3.3 MB/sec -- so there is something that we aren't doing that the
 
 
BTW -- what SCSI adapter are you using????
 
John
dyson@implode.root.com