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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: Configuring an Adaptec 1542B ...
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:28:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <C05D78.B95@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <9212301744.AA00859@jrsalb1.UUCP> <1992Dec31.214127.6866@xenitec.on.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec31.214127.6866@xenitec.on.ca> eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
- >In article <9212301744.AA00859@jrsalb1.UUCP> Tim Northrup <jrsalb1!tgn@brspyr1.brs.com> writes:
- >>It has an Adaptec 1542b controller with 2 Maxtor SCSI drives, and a SCSI
- >> [...]
- >>Currently, the 1542b is configured for the default of 5 mb/s transfer speed.
- >Mbytes/sec. They weren't kidding. I set my host adapter to talk
- >to it at a max transfer rate of 5 (down from 10), and magically
-
- Saw this recently with a WangDat 2600. On the Adaptec 1742 in enhanced mode you
- can set the maximum speed for each individual device. So it was easy to fix
- without too much degradation to other devices.
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