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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] What SCSI controllers _are_ supported?
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 18:21:06 GMT
References: <count.729725567@mits> <QJufrAlBBh107h@hansford.com> <C2LoMH.46p@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: IBM Austin
Keywords: 386BSD SCSI
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In article <C2LoMH.46p@cs.mcgill.ca>, storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
> In article <QJufrAlBBh107h@hansford.com> murrayc@hansford.com (Charles H. Murray) writes:
> >In <count.729725567@mits> count@mits.mdata.fi (Bror Heinola) writes:
> >> I'll be transferring a 386BSD system to SCSI from WD1007 ESDI and
> >> I'd like to know what controllers are supported
> >> a) in kernel
> >> b) with special add-on drivers
> >
> >What about support for the Ultrastor 34F, VESA Local Bus SCSI-2 bus
> >mastering controller. I would love to see the performance of 386BSD
> >with this card.
>
> You left out a few buzzwords, like super-duper superscalar multi-
> segmented ultra buffering caching controller.
>
> Boy, would marketing be upset.
At the risk of starting another Flame Fest(tm), who beleives that a
caching controller will improve performance much ( say 5% ) over the
caching that BSD does?
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