Re: U160 on Adaptec 39160

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sun, 3 Nov 2002 05:30:14 -0800


On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0100, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Hi,
> Anybody know why I'm not getting 160MB transfers ?
> Kernel is Suse 2.4.19
> MB is Intel D845PESVL + 2.4 P4 + 512MB DDR333 ram.
> Adaptec card is in 3rd PCI slot.
> AGP ATI 7500 vga
> 2 x U160 disks on channel B with special U160 cable and actively
> terminated.
> DVD + DAT on SE channel A. Nothing on U160 channel A.
> Snips under from log and /proc
> Thanks
> Margit Schubert-While

39160 does 80MB/s/channel, the 160MB/s happens pretty much only as
the sum of both channels. I've had one for a couple of years, and it
performs very well, though it won't ever quite live up to the marketing
gimmick for bandwidth on a single channel. ISTR something about RAID
across channels involved, but I just use disks directly instead.

Bill
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