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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!phase2.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!165.254.2.53!not-for-mail From: John Westerdale <westerj@nji.com> Subject: Re: Dual host SCSI ? Pointers please... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Nntp-Posting-User: westerj Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Long Pond Industries Message-ID: <32A24C19.763B459E@nji.com> References: <574beq$2of@herald.concentric.net> <329B206D.578C@rzs-hm.si> <57foa4$fdu@verdi.nethelp.no> <57t28s$hhp@herald.concentric.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.22 i586) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 849494279/3922 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: blackbear.nji.com Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 03:25:13 GMT Lines: 34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:65081 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31883 comp.os.linux.hardware:58130 comp.os.linux.misc:144845 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking:14206 Daniel Ts'o wrote: > > In article <57foa4$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 If it is so critical, why not write the application for Linux? Just my $.02 JDW ---------------------------------------------------------- Beer, Food and Unix. John Westerdale. AKA westerj@nji.com ==========================================================