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- From: Tim Northrup <jrsalb1!tgn@brspyr1.brs.com>
- Subject: Configuring an Adaptec 1542B ...
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:44:17 GMT
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- Howdy & Happy New Year!
-
- I have a 486/50 system running Xenix 2.3.3.
-
- It has an Adaptec 1542b controller with 2 Maxtor SCSI drives, and a SCSI
- Syquest 44 (all internal, ID's 0, 1 and 2, terminators on the Syquest drive
- & adapter only). Everything works okay at the moment.
-
- Currently, the 1542b is configured for the default of 5 mb/s transfer speed.
- Has anyone had any problems using the higher settings? A friend (who set
- up this system) claims to have had some kind of disk corruption occur when
- the higher speeds were used. What else needs to be changed (if any) to
- use the higher settings?
-
- Any info at all on configuration of this puppy would be most appreciated!
-
- I got zilch for documentation on the 1542b with the system; the document
- 154XB_IG.DOC from the Adaptec BBS is a little helpful; but I'm looking for
- a little better direction.
-
- What prompted this was the recent performance discussion going on ... I ran
- one of the tests (dd if=/dev/rhd0a of=/dev/null bs=8k count=2048) and it
- took about a minute on my system as currently configured ... this seemed a
- bit long to me. Is this slow, or does it just *seem* slow?
-
- ANYWAY .... Thanks in advance for any pointers!
-
- -- Tim
-
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- Timothy G. Northrup | JRS Clinical Technologies, Inc.
- -----------------------------------------| RD 2 Box 49, Rock Road
- ...!rutgers!brspyr1!jrsalb1!tim | Berne, NY 12023-9607
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