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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Subject: Re: EISA/MCA *or* Local Bus? Which is better for multitasking?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.161628.1241@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
- References: <BzBx9G.Ap@utdallas.edu> <1992Dec17.231538.29868@blkbox>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:16:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.231538.29868@blkbox> rbarnett@blkbox (Rick Barnett) writes:
- >I have seen specs on two VL-Bus SCSI controllers, with data transfer rates
- >up to 66 MBytes per second - since SCSI-2 maximum is 10 MB/sec, you can hang
- >a few drives on it without saturating the I/O channel.
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- First, SCSI-2 has a max xfer rate of 20MB/sec (double speed/wide).
- Second, I'd like to see a drive that handles that speed on a pc...(I'd be
- VERY happy).
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- Jeff
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