From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:44:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:43:58 -0500 Received: from sls.lcs.mit.edu ([18.27.0.167]:34812 "EHLO sls.lcs.mit.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:43:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6EEA1B.87732D70@sls.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:43:39 -0500 From: I Lee Hetherington Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18-4.smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote: > Something to note, however: the media transfer rate for those disks is at > most ~20MB/sec. Hmm... scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS10K2-TY092L Rev: DA40 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.59 seconds =40.25 MB/sec They can do more like 40MB/s, so only two disks could saturate the 80MB/s. This is in a Dell Precision 620. --Lee Hethernigton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/