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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AMD 5x86 recommendations?
Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:35:30 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:

> Try changing your adaptec to a bt946 and retry the compile. I still
> suspect the aha2940 to be very slow in FreeBSD.

It is not.  It is reported to get up to ~ 8 MB/s over a standard 8-bit
SCSI bus.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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