Subject: 3/80 SCSI & Ethernet
To: None <port-sun3@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <andy.ball@earthlink.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 06/04/2003 09:58:36
Hello Curtis,

  CHW> One thing I'm seeing with my 3/80 is that the disk
     > I/O on these things is reaaly ssslllooowww......

Do you suppose that is because of the disk, the host adaptor
or something in the software?  I've been wondering over the
past couple of days whether the 3/80 uses the same SCSI and
Ethernet chips as the 4/60 (and 4/65?)

  CHW> ...with this crude test anyway, the 3/80 appears
     > faster with a local disk, despite the fact that the
     > transfer rates are around 10% of the max theoretical
     > for narrow SCSI. 

Still have to wait for data to fly under the head, although
that may not be the only thing effecting your disk
performance.

- Andy Ball