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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!WWW From: dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking Subject: Re: Dual host SCSI ? Pointers please... Date: Sun, 01 Dec 96 23:53:14 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <57t28s$hhp@herald.concentric.net> References: <574beq$2of@herald.concentric.net> <329B206D.578C@rzs-hm.si> <57foa4$fdu@verdi.nethelp.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc6.cris.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:65060 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31871 comp.os.linux.hardware:58110 comp.os.linux.misc:144825 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking:14205 In article <57foa4$fdu@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) wrote: :[Metod Kozelj] : :| > If I could find a way using Fast Ethernet of getting, say, :| > 5Mbyte/sec from DOS to Linux/FreeBSD I would consider that too. :| :| 100BaseTX ethernet offers (theoretically of course) about 10Mbps :| throughput. So, in practice, you shouldn't have much problems to get :| 5Mbps. I think the only problem could arise on DOS side, if it couldn't :| deal with that large flow of data from/to net adapter. :Getting 5 MByte/s from DOS is another matter entirely. Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, the DOS side of things is the most critical. That is, how to get 5Mbyte/sec out of a DOS machine, either by dual-host SCSI or Fast Ethernet... Still looking for ideas... Cheers, Dan Ts'o dantso@cris.com