[SunRescue] Re: [Sunhelp] Disks for Sparcstation 2

[Ken Hansen]

I suspect the software may be reporting the "possible" speed for the
devices, not the actual speed for the bus off the controller...

Just a thought...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Lockwood" <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 7:45 PM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Re: [Sunhelp] Disks for Sparcstation 2


> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>
> > Linux on all of my SS2s tells me that it's 10MB/sec SCSI.  I haven't
gotten
> > around to *BSD yet.
>
> It's wrong.  The onboard SCSI implementation on the SS2 maxxes out at
> 5MB/s synchronous.  Fast SCSI-II (10MB/s) first appeared on the later rev
> 4/600's and all other sun4m.