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- From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Choice of SCSI controllers?
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:06:31 GMT
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- In article <1dSq02Ys1c7B01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> dlbb0@diag.amdahl.com (David Black) writes:
- >What SCSI controller(s) are known to coexist with an IDE controller and
- >also perform respectibly in LINUX (good xfer rate and "nice to the system")?
- >I almost snagged a $20 ST-01 at local electronics store, but thought there
- >might be better options.
- >
- >Please post replies.
-
- Basically, any of the supported SCSI controllers will coexist with
- IDE. (Adaptec 154x, 174x in 154x mode, Future Domain 16 bit, Seagate ,
- Ultrastor 14F, Western Digital 7000FAASST).
-
- As far as getting a decent xfer rate : Version two of the SCSI drivers
- support scatter / gather, and will transfer as many sectors as it can
- with one SCSI command. Unfortunately, that isn't the case
- right now, which makes performance is pretty low, especially on drives
- that lack a track buffer or better.
-
- After SCSI scatter/gather support is in place, I expect that the bus master
- controllers like the Adaptec 1542 will be real fast (one interrupt for
- the entire transfer, no CPU intervention, limited essentially by bus
- speed), whereas the current Seagate data transfer routines (not the whole
- driver, which currently maxes out at ~120k/s) have been measured at 400 -
- 440K / sec (486/33), and are extremely CPU dependant.
-
- If price is an issue, and you have surplus SCSI drives sitting around,
- the Seagate is damm cheap at $20 compared to the ~$150 a bare adaptec
- 1542 board runs.
-