*BSD News Article 46941


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.cc.sunysb.edu!vernick
From: vernick@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Vernick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Max performance with AHA-1542CF and ST31230N
Date: 18 Jul 1995 13:21:00 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <3ugcfs$40e@abel.cc.sunysb.edu>
References: <g91b8566.806011085@omega>
NNTP-Posting-Host: sbgrad9.cs.sunysb.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Arne Bier (g91b8566@cs.ru.ac.za) wrote:
: Is the ST-31230N capable of handling more than 5MB/s and Sync Negotiation etc?
: .ie has anyone sucessfully done it under FreeBSD 2.0.5 ?  The BIOS warns that
: "most systems don't handle >5MB and that data may be lost etc".

Not only must the disk support 10/MBs but, I believe, the motherboard
must also support it.  My ACER motherboard will not run with any
setting > 5MBs although the disk can support it.
--
Michael Vernick                          vernick@sbcs.sunysb.edu
Dept. Of Computer Science @ SUNY SB      (516)-632-8434
Stony Brook, NY 11794