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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!bradford.ac.uk!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk (Thomas Sandford) Subject: Re: SCSI-2 adapter recommendation for 386bsd Message-ID: <1993Aug27.093605.3190@info.brad.ac.uk> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <25jsns$gj4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 09:36:05 BST Lines: 17 Jaye Mathisen (osyjm@cs.montana.edu) wrote: : In article <25jh8g$r5h@milou.eunet.fi>, : Bror 'Count' Heinola <count@muncca.fi> wrote: : > ... (about the Adaptec 1542c) : > : > I don't have any complaints, except transfer speed is pretty slow, : > only about 250k / write and 600k / read... Disk is Seagate ST41200N : > (CDC Imprimis Wren VII), 1GB 5.25" FH. : Seems pretty abysmal, Have you tried messing with block sizes/frag sizes/ : rotdelay (Somebody told me rotdelay of 1 is the same as 4, but I haven't : verified this), and that kind of stuff? How do I go about finding the transfer speed for my drive/adapter combination? I also have the 1542c and have had no problems with it. -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk