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From: chris@aladdin.net (Chris Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Best PCI SCSI card for BSDI 2.0/2.1?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:11:31 GMT
Organization: Aladdin Internet
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On Tue, 09 Jan 1996 02:42:14 GMT, dbotkin@probe.net (Dale Botkin)
wrote:

>I'm pulling my Adaptec 1542CF this week to replace it with a PCI SCSI
>card.  What's my best bet under BSDI?  I see a Buslogic on the list in
>the Lizard book - is this the best one to use, or should I look
>elsewhere?

I am using the buslogic cards on BSDI with no problems at all.
seems to be fast enough to keep 3 drives completly busy
and I'm getting iozone readings of 2.5MB/sec to 3 drives
simultaniously for a total controler io of 7.5MB/sec which
seems good to me.

>
>Dale
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