Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:09:52 -0600 (CST) | From | Brad Hartin <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB) |
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> > > I had a similar situation except I was more interested in the performance > > difference. Went from ~4MB/s with the 430HX controller to ~12.5MB/s with > > the promise. This on an old Pentium system. > > The network is 10 mbit, so 4 MB/sec is no good in this case. > I've got the thing running, with (ibm)setmax. Don't hang the disk in a > machine that does handle > 32 GB, because it will screw the limit the > setmax just set.
If your network is 10 megaBIT, then 4 megaBYTES a second is sufficient to saturate your network. 10Mbit maxes around 1.1Mbyte half duplex, or so.
Hell, my little server at home has a bunch of old SCSI-2 disks...they do a whopping 120kbytes a second!
Brad Hartin
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