Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:47:07 -0400 From: Wilson MacGyver <macgyver@db-net.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Don Wilde <Don@PartsNow.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7860 Message-ID: <3367778B.D6E1EEC1@db-net.com> References: <199704300300.MAA25127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith wrote: > The 7880, the "original" chip on the 2940 card, can track 16 of these > structures without requiring any help, allowing for up to 16 > simultaneous SCSI transactions; a fairly comfortable number. > > The 7860 on the newer 2940's can only track three. There is support > (the SCBPAGING option) for shuffling among these three to handle more > simultaneous transactions, but obviously this requires more work on > the part of the driver. So does all adptect 2940 use the 7860 now? I was getting ready to buy a 5-6 of them, as well as several motherboards that has it built-in. -- Wilson MacGyver macgyver@db-net.com -------------------------------------- Veni, Vidi, Concidi.
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