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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: adaptec 1742, *BSD vs Linux Date: 11 Nov 1993 23:54:00 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2bujao$5s3@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2bs314$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu> <MYCROFT.93Nov11130439@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <MYCROFT.93Nov11130439@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: > >In article <2bs314$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu> cajho@uno.edu writes: > > Hi. I'm currently running Linux on an EISA system with an Adaptec > 1742 card, and was wondering how support for this card in NetBSD > is. > >The NetBSD repository, sun-lamp, uses a 1742, and Chris says he's >timed disk access at 1.4MB/s. And for that matter, I've timed my ISA box with a 1542B and a DEC RZ26 at 980K/sec write and 1.48MB/sec read. I would suspect that the EISA box could get around ~2MB/sec reading with the same driver. >`Works for me.' Ditto. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me