Subject: Re: Future hardware concerns
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Kent Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/20/1996 02:47:50
In message <199605200721.AAA06876@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, michaelv@headcandy
.com writes:
>
>>>   What sort of problems should I expect to have with the Adaptec?  My
>>> Adaptec 1542 has treated me so well that I hate to leave Adaptec.
>>> Just to make certain, there is no way to use the 1542 in this Pentium
>>> machine with more than 16M?
>
>>My Adaptec controller, which is a 2940, has a tendency to lock my
>>system up during periods of intense I/O.   For example, the nightly
>>file system checks.   I would expect the 2940W to behave the same way
>>- I believe the chipset is identical.
>
>Not only that, but your 1542 will give you a ___severe___ performance
>hit versus a PCI controller.  Let me make sure that is clear enough:
>_____severe_____ performance loss.  That's just my own experience
>comparing otherwise similar hardware.
>

  What scsi controller would be recommended then?  How about a Buslogic
956C?  930?

  Thanks.

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Kent Vander Velden
graphix@iastate.edu