[860] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: Thanks, but!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Thu Oct 31 08:49:13 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961031131722.14193B-100000@unix1>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:45:35 -0000 ()
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
To: John Ronan <jronan@unix1.rtc-waterford.ie>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
On 31-Oct-96 John Ronan wrote:
>>Hello All,
>Thanks to all who gave me advice. I now have the 1542 installed and
>running with 3 HD's on it but I still have a small problem.
>>From all the data sheets the drives should all be 'FAST' now this I assume
>to mean 10MB's. When I try and up the speed of the 1542 over 5.7MB's
>the check dies. Is this because my 486 is unable to cope with the higher
>speed or is it something else.
>Cheers
>From the information presented I think you are discussing the DMA speed
of the card, which is separate from the SCSI bus speed and is often
limited to around 5.0MB/s on the ISA bus simply because of ISA bus
limitations.
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