Subject: Re: LANCE driver now fixed.
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Oscar Oberg <Oscar.Oberg@abc.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/22/1998 18:00:30
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> I have just finised my rewriting of the lance code, for VAXststions.
> It doesn't get any "device timeout" anymore, and ftp on my 3100/m38
> can send/receive rather constantly with 250K/s, which seems appropriate
> for such slow machine. Also, the device driver became much faster than
> the generic one; a receive interrupt is now handled in 65 uS instead of
> 280uS. This will gain performance on diskless machines quite a bit.

Great work! Gotta try this on our VT1300.. Does anybody have a spare SCSI
controller for it btw? (Or did I already ask?) It should be the same type
as in VS3100 from what I've understood. It should interface to a large
ribbon cable connector I think.

Oscar