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- From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
- Subject: Re: SCSI devices on NeXT?
- Message-ID: <Bz74JI.35I@iat.holonet.net>
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- References: <1992Dec9.232617.28278@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:42:53 GMT
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- I wrote a simple SCSI benchmark program for the NeXT over a year ago. It
- was primitive. I recall having to use only the "generic" SCSI driver. I
- recall Having to be root level when running. I remember being dissapointed
- that the generic driver had a 64K DMA burst or something like that that
- hindered raw high speed data throughput (compared to the real non-generic
- drivers. It took one day to write and I am not even a NeXT programmer (Mac
- guy) so I know you can easily do it on the NeXT.
-
- Its very simple compared to Apples SCSI manager crap. (Which by the way is
- going to be totally obsoleted in almost every way when the Cousin Itt
- Apple SCSI manager ships soon (on the Cyclones for certain) Its called
- SCSI Manager 4.3 and it is very good, but will not allow simultaneous use
- of two Quadra SCSI chips in the same versatile manner as using TIBs
- allows. TIBs can be self modifying and do lots of neat-o stuff but no TIB
- support is possible on future SCSI managers from Apple. Thus you cannot
- stripe a partition across two devices that have dissimilar data transfer
- effective rates (1 3 meg per second device and one 1.5 meg per second
- device) and instruct the New Apple SCSI manager 4.3 to transfer 10 megs of
- striped data from both devices using two scsi paths (busses in this case)
- wherby one chip transfers 1.5 megs per second interlaced into destination
- buffer, and the other transfers 3 megs persecond interlaced in a
- lockstepped manner during the data phases. ARRRGGH!
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- Bill Williams
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