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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!gatech!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI diskIO Date: 23 Aug 1995 17:47:30 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 25 Message-ID: <41fpji$g5a@overload.lbl.gov> References: <417ee7$1kp@trauma.rn.com> <419qu5$r4q@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:35713 comp.os.linux.hardware:13408 comp.os.linux.setup:17056 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4637 In article <419qu5$r4q@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >news <news@trauma.rn.com> wrote: >>I can't decide on which controller to use. Is the 2940 my only option? >>I have access to an older 2940 (original one) however, I would like to >>know if there is a PCI SCSI host adapter for less money that runs faster >>than the 2940 under FreeBSD, Linux and DOS. > >Well, not faster, but almost at the same speed for very less bucks: >the NCR 52c810. I can easily suck 5 MB/s from a (not too fast) >Seagate disk over it, and 4.8 MB/s (each) when running two disks in >parallel. Ain't this enough for you? >-- I guess you mean 53c810 for 52c810. It is the most less expensive SCSI-2 controller and has the performance reach the SCSI-2 spec. I got 6.6 MBps reading rate on a sigle Seagate Baracuda disk and 8.5 MBps reading rate on double Seagate Baracuda disks on the same controller. It costs $55 now from ACME MICRO-SYSTEM Inc., and about $69 - $79 other places. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |