Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!omen!caf From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Mylex vs. Micronics vs. AMI 386 motherboards Message-ID: <831@omen.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 05:33:32 GMT References: <1235@mitisft.Convergent.COM> <22538@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon Lines: 11 In article <22538@cup.portal.com> cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) writes: :All I can say is do *lots* of homework :before you buy! For example, someone out :there is supposed to be making a board :with SCSI directly connected to the :CPU bypassing the AT bus...so you can :get "real" I/O up to 900KB/sec rather :than 250KB/sec like all the other :boards.. Hmmmm, I get 900 kb/sec (according to CORETEST) on a number of 286 and 386 boxes using either an ESDI 2322 or SCSI 1540 Adaptec controllers.