Subject: Re: What do you think...
To: John A. Maier <johnam@kemper.org>
From: Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/13/2000 11:02:05
Dear all,

>>>>> "John" == John A Maier <johnam@kemper.org> writes:

    John> Does NetBSD support putting a SCSI-I HD on the SCSI bus?
    >>  If we're speaking of the VS2000: Yes, it can. It's painfully
    >> slow since DMA isn't supported yet (Ragge: HINT,HINT ;)) but it
    >> works. I'm

    John> Is it any worse that than the RD drives?

It's not that bad in terms of noise. Transfer rates are in the
whopping 20-40kB/s area but the heavy interrupt load impacts rather
heavily on system performance... But - hey, it's cool ;)

			       Bernhard
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