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From: robinson@rads.dnd.ca (Ken Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: UltraStore SCSI adapters, comments, differe
Date: 29 Jul 1994 14:43:50 GMT
Organization: NR/NS Inc. Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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>Can anyone who is using the UltraStore SCSI host adapters tell me how
>they perform, specifically the VLB version.  What's the difference between
>the 14F and the 34F?  How's the support in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 for this adapter,
>how well do they work...

Hello.

First thing, as far as I know, Ultrastor has gone bankrupt.  You may
want to consider this if you are buying a card.

I think the 14F is an ISA, and the 34F is the VLB.  I own a 34F.  

The card is supported by FreeBSD (included in the BT generic kernel I
think).  I currently have a 245Meg Maxtor, a Bernoulli 150 (removable)
and a 1 GIG IBM drive on it.  I have also used it with a NEC 2X CDROM
and a Sanyo 2X CDROM.  I have even used it to share a SCSI bus with my
Amiga 3000.  (2 hosts, 4 or 5 drives total at that time).

The card has given me no problems.  I can't say much about the speed of it
though.  When I upgraded from FreeBSD 1.1 to 1.1.5, the speed seemed to
have fallen, yet it should have gone up because of improvements in the
OS.  I haven't tracked this problem down yet.   Running a benchmark
program (forgot the name), I seem to get 1.75 Megs/s on read and write
to a 100Meg File on the IBM drive.  The other drives currently have
other OS's on them.  There were sample benchmarks included with the
benchmark software, and the above 1.75 blew them all away, but they were
old benchmarks on differnt machines (Suns, etc).

I would like some sort of comparison base to judge the speed against.

BTW, the rest of the hardware is a 486-66 with a ATI GUP VL and 16 megs
of RAM.

I have also used this same hardware for DOS/Windows and OS/2.  No
problems with any of them.

---
Ken Robinson 	
NRNS Incorporated
e-mail:	robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca
I am under the opinion that my opinions are my own opinions, 
	but that is just my opinion.