From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain itg.ie)
Date: Fri 06 Oct 2000 - 18:48:40 IST
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Keith Hyland wrote:
> what would cause SCSI disk(s) to apparently have a slow transfer speed?
see next line...
> I have a ST3600N and a Micropolis, into an AHA-1542 neither of which
^^^^^^^^
there's your answer...
> appear to transfer data above 900k/s
> I've tried changing the termination, setting "synchronous" on the adapter,
synch is what you want.
> re-formating, using a different ribbon cable and no improvement. AFAIK the
> micropolis is rated at 5mb/s - (10mb/s synchronous)
that's what its SCSI interface can do. The disk itself will probably
be slower.
but your real problem is the host adapter. if you're willing to spend
some cash, buy a PCI tekram card from scan.co.uk. (they start at 70
quid or so for Fast/wide).
> keith
regards,
--paulj
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