On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi Tom.  Thanks for writing.
> 
> > Since this machine has Quantum drives I guess this is my 
> > problem.  Does anyone 
> > know if this code is still actually necessary?  It seems 
> > it's been there a 
> > while.  It's disappointing to not get full performance out of 
> > the hardware you 
> > have.
> 
> Yes, that code is still necessary.  There's a new aic7xxx driver by Justin
> Gibbs at Adaptec which is now being beta tested which corrects this issue.
> Something to note, however: the media transfer rate for those disks is at
> most ~20MB/sec. 


Actually, aren't a number of newer drives getting upwards of 30MB/s?

> Therefore, you only exceed the 80MB/sec bus speed if you
> have more than 4 disks all doing maximum I/O at the same time.  Since the
> PowerApp.web 100 has at most 2 disks internally, you really shouldn't see
> any significant performance difference.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Thanks for buying Dell!
> Matt Domsch
> Dell Linux Systems Group
> Linux OS Development
> 
> 
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