home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!crdgw1!rdsunx.crd.ge.com!ariel!davidsen
- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: When to install FAS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.143113.14868@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:31:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.192005.8610@cv.ruu.nl>
- Sender: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP)
- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
- Lines: 19
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ariel.crd.ge.com
-
- In article <1992Aug31.192005.8610@cv.ruu.nl>, fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman) writes:
- | I just installed a new V32bis/V42bis modem under DELL unix. Everything
- | seems to work with the standard tty drivers. Can someone tell me when
- | and under what conditions I should install the FAS drives.
-
- If you have 16550's and the Dell drivers are supporting them, then you
- probably don't need FAS. You may get some gains from FAS (haven't tried
- it on Dell), but it does not run at the streams level, so there is some
- overhead involved. I can't remember how much. There's also SAS, the
- streams version of FAS, which was developed from an earlier FAS and may
- not have all the enhancements present in FAS.
-
- In short, you don't need FAS with Dell, but you may get some
- performance improvement from it, and may want to use SAS instead. Not
- very definitive, right?
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-