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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SCSI controller recomendations requested Date: 15 Sep 1994 02:21:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <358b3i$b03@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <Cw3nuw.E8@galaxia.network23.com> <MICHAELV.94Sep14134212@mindbender.headcandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <MICHAELV.94Sep14134212@mindbender.headcandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >This is really the only choice that makes sense. It's twice as wide >and four to five times as fast as anything on your ISA bus. Plus, it >can access any RAM you put in your machine without resorting to >bounce-buffer slowness. The VLB bus is 32-bits wide and runs at (in >your machine) 40MHz. Please note, however, that this will ONLY work if you have a later revision model. The earlier (pre-C?) revision Bt445S cards had broken DMA that resulted in the same <=16MB memory limitations. I don't dispute any of the other speed issues noted here. Jordan