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Re: Linux as a SCSI _Target_ device?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Andree)
Thu Nov 12 17:24:31 1998

Date: 	Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:46:33 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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In-Reply-To: <19981112093141.A19574@kg1.ping.de>; from Kurt Garloff on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:31:41AM +0100

On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:31:41AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> The specification allows for 67MHz PCI devices, but I don't know such SCSI
> controllers, only AGP graphics cards (which have a trick to double bandwidth
> again, resulting in 533 MB/s).

Which is not so much of a trick, but a simple consideration: 

	* double the data transfer rate

	* transfer one data word on each of the clock cycle edges
	  - you usually only use the rising edge of a clock cycle to 
	  - transfer data. 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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