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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 10:18:46 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re(2): SCSI hostadapter
Message-ID:  <199605280048.KAA29356@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199605272126.OAA09109@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 27, 96 02:26:59 pm

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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > This particular card does not support interrupts (it doesn't even have any fingers on the connector for any of the IRQ lines).
...
> This is typically an artifact of having the interrupt set incorrectly.

This message is an artifact of Terry spending too long awake 8)

> I'd caution you that it's also possible that it's just a dog-slow
> interface, so there may be nothing to be done about it.

A good 5380 clone in a good DMA environment can manage around the 2M/sec
mark sustained (eg. the LOGIC 53C80 in the Atari TT).  Without this, and
with no interrupts, you're kinda restricted in your total data rate 8(

> 					Terry Lambert

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