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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Subject: Re: Experiences with BusLogic 747 (and others)?
References: <michaelv.758436381@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 03:59:36 GMT
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In article <michaelv.758436381@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote:
>Has anyone had any experience with using a BusLogic 747 with NetBSD
>(0.9 or current)? I'd be interested to know what kind of performance
>you've had and your level of satisfaction with it.
I have a FreeBSD 1.0.2 system here with a BT-747S and a BT-742A in
it. They are both working fine. The 747 is signficantly faster
than the 742 on raw reads. With iozone, I don't see much difference
though. The 747 ``officially'' supports Fast SCSI 2, whereas with
the 742 BusLogic advises against it (even though it can be set to
FAST) unless you have a very short cable and a low noise environment.
On my system the 742 would not reliably run FAST with my DEC
DSP-3105s.
>(Are BusLogic and
>BusTek two different companies, or what's the deal?)
It is the same company. BusTek changed their name to BusLogic
awhile back.
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