Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!frmug.fr.net!pern.frmug.fr.net!jmm73 From: jmm73@pern.frmug.fr.net (Jean-Michel MERCIER) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Real SCSI port on SoundBlaster 16??? Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 22:13:39 +0100 References: <2kig7vINN5dt@news.Sweden.Sun.COM> Organization: Where the Dragons and then Knights live (Private node) Lines: 20 In <2kig7vINN5dt@news.Sweden.Sun.COM> staffan@Sweden.Sun.COM (Staffan Winstrom - Sun Sweden) writes: >Yes, I'm using a SB16 SCSI-2 with 2 hard-disks connected and occasionally 1 Sun CDROM and >a DAT tape for backup of the hard-disks (with GNU-tar). I am only running it with DOS and >Windows. You should be aware of that there are at least 2 different kinds of SB16 and the >one I'm using is the one explicitly called SB16 SCSI-2. The SB16 without SCSI-2 suffix has >probably not a real SCSI port but merley a CDROM port (maybe SCSI) with slow transfer rates. Did you made rate benchmark on your hard drives ? I suppose it is not very enthusiastic. The SB16/SCSI is a clone of AHA1510, the low end adapter from Adaptec. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | another post from : Jean-Michel MERCIER jmm73@pern.frmug.fr.net | | PERN : Where the Dragons and the Knights live | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Please, no email >100Ko without permission (I pay hot for it) | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+