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From: tcumming@thinkthink.com (Tom Cumming)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ultra Widw SCSI Disk
Date: 18 Mar 1997 20:53:08 GMT
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In article <332BECF2.40B3@psn.or.jp>, nomura@psn.or.jp says...
>
>Hello,
>
>FreeBSD 2.1.5 supports Ultra wide SCSI disks ?

   I am using an adaptec 2940UW and running fine. The default is
*not* "Ultra". You have to go into the board configuration menus
and enable it.


>sd1(ncr0:6:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8.
>4157MB (8515173 512 byte sectors) 

Well... 100ns / second is 10Meg *transfers* per second. On a wide
buss that's 20Meg *bytes* per second. The message above messages is
misleading.

Tom C.