Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:585 comp.unix.xenix:7799 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Mylex SCSI Controller Summary: Huh? We can do that RIGHT NOW, without Mylex... Message-ID: <1989Sep26.221345.12940@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 22:13:45 GMT References: <111006@nstar.UUCP> <653@fiver.UUCP> <14944@nuchat.UUCP> <22542@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL Lines: 23 In article <22542@cup.portal.com> cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) writes: >Hopefully the Mylex will give 386 land the >*first* board that gives 900KB/sec disk I/O >like the Amiga (at Amiga prices hopefully) That's funny... The WD1007/WA2 has been clocked here at 950KB/second (ESDI 10 Mhz). I understand that the WD1008 (15Mhz ESDI) has been clocked at over 1300KB/second, although I haven't seen that one myself. The DPT boards have been clocked at that rate (950KB/sec) on cache misses. On cache hits the DPT board is off the top of scale on our tests; that is in excess of 4MB/sec! While the Mylex board may very well be nice, it's a bummer that it's limited to the Mylex motherboards....of course, given the differences in 32-bit slots I understand the limitations... -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM,!ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 312 566-8911], Voice: [+1 312 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"