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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec 1740 and Smartdrv double buffering?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.224404.27510@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: adaptec smartdrv buffering
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <C19rG6.FA4@ibeam.intel.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:44:04 GMT
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- In <C19rG6.FA4@ibeam.intel.com> gweil@ibeam.intel.com (Garry Weil) writes:
-
- >I have an Adaptec AHA-1740 EISA SCSI controller, BIOS version
- >1.30, running in enhanced mode. Currently I am using Double
- >buffering with Smartdrv. Do I really need to? From what I have
- >read, the 1740 should not need to be double buffered. But, I am
- >paranoided about making this change. Does anyone run the 1740
- >in enhanced mode? Do you use double buffering?
-
- I am running the AHA-1740 in Enhanced Mode. I use the ASPI driver
- that comes with the kit (ASPIEDOS.SYS) and do NOT use double
- buffering. I don't believe it required buffering running in Standard
- Mode without the ASPI driver, but I don't recall that I ever tried
- that in Enhanced Mode.
-
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