Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:30:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Douglas Ambrisko <ambrisko@tcsi.com> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, richard@pegasus.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 ... Message-ID: <199608221630.JAA10862@cozumel.tcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199608220743.AAA24607@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Aug 22, 96 00:43:47 am
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Justin T. Gibbs writes: | | >The aic7770 appears to handle heavier loads better; this may be because it | >keeps its program in local memory (does it?) rather than needing to | >fetch an opcode every 1us (as the 53c810 does) across the PCI bus. It | >may just be due to better device design. | | It does have the entire program in ram as do some of the newer NCR (or | should I say symbios?) cards. Does the driver have to change to take advantage of the new NCR cards with on-board ram? If it does has it been done? Doug A.
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