Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:38:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Torbjorn Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: [ME TOO] Re: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent - SCSI issues |
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Gerard Roudier wrote: > > > > My experience 4 years ago using a IBM S12: > > > > 1542CF: 2.2 MB/second (with some bus on / bus off hack). > > Hmm. That's odd. In the manual it says that it can do up to 4Mb per second.
Under the right circumstances a 154x could do even more than that AFAIK, but...
Don't expect a PCI motherboard to do it! Or at least not any modern PCI board (I've seen a few early VLB/PCI combos, where the PCI part was really crappy, but the VLB/ISA part was OK).
Given one of the few MB where you could run it reliable at 12.5 MHz ISA bus *and* the 8 or 10 MB/s DMA timing settings (not the usable DMA bandwidth, this is before off/bus-on modifications!) it should be possible to go beyond 5 MB/s with the right bus-on/bus-off settings.
(I'm fairly sure the 10 MB/s setting needed at *least* 12.5 MHz ISA bus, quite possibly higher!, in fact I can't recall seeing anyone run it reliably, but I have seen people claim that it worked)
> (*) For those that require an explanation: > That means they don't even advertize that the thing can do better, no > they even SAY that it can only do 4Mb per second (sync). That was > really great stuff back then, but nowadays, you really need to be > able to do 10Mb per second AT LEAST.
The only thing I can find about it on Adaptec's current Web pages is: Host Bus Burst Data Rate: 10 MB/s (none of the other data in the DataSheet or the TechSpec seems relevant).
Now, 'Host Bus' ought to be the ISA bus, and while I don't have access to any 154x's any longer, they might actually be correct. Not that the 10 MB/s setting is actually usable with any MB I've seen (8/6.7 is usually the highest that works), but it *IS* there AFAIK?
And even under the best circumstances the burst data rate is significantly higher than the sustained transfer-rate, due to bus-on/bus-off timings.
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