On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ken Seefried wrote: > > > > > Guenter Millahn writes: > > > > > > > > 1) Is it possible to run the SCSI connection with a higher speed? > > > > > > There are SBus cards that can run faster. I've got an SBus FWD SCSI > > > drive > > > that makes a different. > > > > > > Ken Seefried, CISSP > > > > > > > > Sorry, Ken, for my unclear request: I wanted to know, if it is possible > > to use this old HW with 10 MBytes/sec both on SCSI controller and disk, > > e.g. by using a better SCSI driver in kernel. > > A "better SCSI driver" cannot overcome the limitations of the hardware. > > Ben
Agree. But both Controller and Disk are Fast-SCSI (aka 10 MByte/s) capable. But the kernel messages tell me that it runs on 5 MHz. On S/E SCSI this is means IMO 8 data bits * 5 MHz = 5 MByte/sec. Is it possible to use the full 10 MByte/sec bandwidth??? Greetings, Guenter md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1480 SUN0424 Rev: 8628 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. esp0: target 3 [period 200ns offset 15 5.00MHz synchronous SCSI] SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 843284 [411 MB] [0.4 GB] sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:18:c7:07 eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. Other Question: Supports the Lance ethernet chip (AMD 7990) full duplex 10 Mbit/s ethernet? Thanks.
