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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:39:25 +0100
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        root@zappa.demon.nl
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec SCSI messages
Message-ID:  <16972.911900365@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:35:32 %2B0100"
References:  <19981124103532.B613@zappa.demon.nl>

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> I guess you are right, but i wonder why they have invented Ultra 2 disks
> then. Since my disk performed in Single Ended mode exactly the same as
> in ULTRA2-LVD mode.

As Ollivier Robert said,

> > Because you have enlarged the _bus_ by two doesn't mean the drive is able
> > to move bytes faster from the platters. 
> > 
> > You are now able to put more disks before saturating the SCSI bus but bear
> > in mind that it is very unlikely that you'll be ever eble to saturate a 80
> > MB/s bus with only one drive.

Is this so hard to understand? Making the bus speed faster *will not*
magically make the bits come off the platter faster. There is a physical
limit here, and *no* amount of bus bandwidth is going to overcome it.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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