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- From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Fast-SCSI-II hostadaptors??????
- Message-ID: <CATONE.92Dec16011929@sovereign-gw.dmark.wharton.upenn.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 06:19:29 GMT
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- In-reply-to: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 5 Dec 92 20:28:51 GMT
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- In article <ByszK5.DAA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
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- >Do I need a Fast-SCSI-II hostadaptor to get full speed out of a Fast-SCSI-II
- >Harddrive or just a SCSI-II hostadaptor?
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- Yes, all you need is a SCSI-II adapter, but unless you have a EISA machine,
- you're gonna hit a transfer rate wall at about 5MB/s, and even EISA machines
- can' hack the FAST WIDE SCSI-II architecture which start at about 20MB/s
- thruput. LocalBus/LocalBus EISA may be able to..
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- Only disks are available in FAST WIDE SCSI-II right now, and they are
- few and expensive and there are cabling issues which can make mixing 8
- and 16 bit SCSI peripherals an adventure. Maybe in a year or so, but
- not now.
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- - Tony
- catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu
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