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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!info.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!news.cccd.edu!gazette.gwc.cccd.edu!usenet From: Michael Peer <mpeer@cccd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: what is the fastest scsi controller card? Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:27:29 -0700 Organization: Golden West College Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31FDB961.5AAB@cccd.edu> References: <4tjllu$he@brians-pc.brians-domain.com> Reply-To: mpeer@cccd.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (WinNT; I) To: Brian Bayorgeon <root@brians-domain.com> Brian Bayorgeon wrote: > > What is the balls to the wall fastest scsi controller card > I can lay my hands on for a news box?? > > Thanks I am using 2 AHA-2940UW with FAST and wide SCSI drives for my spool and over areas. It seems to be working fine. The best indication I have when the system is slowing down is the log from the other machine, it says sleeping, when nothing is going on. This new system doesn't do that at all. It goes without saying lots of CPU speed, and RAM !!! Please respond with e-mail as well as post, as news server still in test phase.