Re: TWGS Upgrade Availability?

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "ST" == Supertimer  <supertimer@aol.com> writes:

 ST> Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

 >> The drive size could be a factor, I'll have to admit I've never compared
 >> the cards with any drive over 700mb. On a larger drive the Apple High Speed
 >> SCSI card could be faster. However on drives 100-700 I found the Ramfast
 >> with DMA off to be about 15% faster. I wish I'd thought to do a comparison
 >> when I had a 4 gig hooked up to the RamFast.

 ST> That explains it.  I tested with an IBM 1GB drive which had lots
 ST> of cache.

Yes, double caching is bad.  Too bad you can't turn off caching per
SCSI ID.

cfs
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