SCSI adapters and the ISA bus

Chuck Young cyoung at bbnplanet.com
Wed Dec 30 09:20:19 EST 1998


Cool.  Let me know where you'll be.

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, John Malloy wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:36:18 -0500
> From: John Malloy <jomalloy at cs.bu.edu>
> Reply-To: discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org
> To: discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org
> Subject: RE: SCSI adapters and the ISA bus
> 
> 
> Hey Chuck,
> 
> Just a quick note.
> 
> I might be going back to work at GTE-I
> 
> remember me?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John Malloy
> jdm at world.com
> Cambridge, MA USA 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss at BLU.ORG [mailto:owner-discuss at BLU.ORG]On Behalf Of
> Chuck Young
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 8:26 PM
> To: discuss at BLU.ORG
> Subject: SCSI adapters and the ISA bus
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> With all this talk of scanners and SCSI cards, I was wondering...
> 
> Will an Adaptec 1542 16-bit ISA SCSI card provide decent performance over
> an on-board/PCI EIDE system? I thought the ISA bus was pretty slow.
> I realize the question is vague and there are advancements made every day
> in chipsets.  For discussion, lets assume an average P-166 and comparable
> disks running under linux 2.0.36. 
> 
> Generally, is an ISA SCSI adapter any faster than the on-board EIDE I/O?
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Chuck Young
> GTE Internetworking
> 
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