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Date:      	Wed, 26 Apr 1995 13:29:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@obiwan.pmr.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BT946C strangeness
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950426132740.2779A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0s4CzA-000300C@obiwan.pmr.com>

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On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Bob Willcox wrote:

> What is your read performance?  The write speed of my DSP3210S's
> was about 1.5meg/sec before I enabled their write caching (the
> DSP3210S defaults to not caching writes).  With the write caching
> enabled I get about 4.5meg/sec (and about 4meg/sec read, though
> that didn't change).  This is on a BT-747S controller.

  The raw read performance (using "dd") was 3511650 bytes/s.  Using 
"iozone 100" would yield about 1.7 MB/s for both read and write.

> BTW, one enables the write caching by setting a bit in mode page
> 8 (as I recall).  Also, for DEC drives you have to reset a bit in
> mode page 2.  Email me if you would like some instructions and a
> program I got from a person at DEC you can use to do this.

  I would very much like to see this info.

Tom



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