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From: millerj@sulaco.OES.ORST.EDU (James Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: SCSI xfer speed
Date: 5 May 1994 05:55:26 GMT
Organization: Oregon Extension Service
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I am interested in hearing from people running with a BusLogic BT445S.  The
question that I have is how to increase the transfer rate on my drives.  In
the manual it says to flip the 6th and 7th switches in bank one on.  I did.
When I boot up and it shows the listing of the controller card it say
parity enable (5MB/sec) transfer rate.  I have a SCSI-2 245M Quantum and
a SCSI-2 540M Quantum.  On the bottom of the drives if two sets of jumpers.
The one set is for the setting of the SCSI ID.  I am not sure what the
second set is for, maybe parity or something like that.  I think this
is the problem with my transfer rate.  If anyone know the trick to
a faster transfer rate or what each of the jumpers in the second bank
is please let me know.

Thanks,
James Miller :)