23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
1:06 p.m.
The program's part of the Adaptec EZSCSI suite that comes with most of their
controller kits, unless you get the OEM version. I got my last one with the
PCMCIA<=>SCSI interface (APA1460 or whatever) I gor for my Winbook.
This suite may be slanted somewhat in favor of the ADAPTEC approach to SCSI,
but I have two PCI SCSI adapters in this box, and the WIDE one is not ADAPTEC,
yet it seems to work fine. Unfortunately, Windows makes it difficult
(impossible) for the software to distinguish atwixt SCSI and IDE, though it
doesn't seem to involve IDE devices. Nevertheless it reports their presence.
I've had as many as three SCSI ports attached to this box and appears that it
handles them all equally well. I can't speak for the precision of the
measurements, but they're quite repeatable.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Fernandez" <fernande(a)internet1.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: This is funny (ebay)
Dick,
What is this program of Adaptec's? What platform does it support? I
have a 2940u2w in my pc (this machine), and I'd love to check scsi drive
performance.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Over the past couple of weeks I've bought three NEW 9GB SCSI hard disks up
to
> $39 each, shipped. Now, these are 7200RPM
drives, but, using Adaptec's
> benchmark, they outperform the 8GB Quantum Atlas II (10Krpm) drives by
about
25% in random
transfers of 32KB blocks.