[geeks] WTB: FH 5.25" SCSI-1 enclosure

[Kris Kirby]

On 25 Nov 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> Uhm, the 2940UW is a single bus SCSI card.  There are two internal
> connectors, one narrow and one wide.  You can't have two busses running
> off of that card.

Pedant. ;-) Yeah, I know it's one electrical bus, I just have the one UW
cable running to the UW drive (which is terminating) and the card it set
to autoterminate, IIRC. The narrow bus also has a terminator on it.

> > Bus-mastering AHA-1640(?) alike for the external stuff. The DDRS does
> > about 12MB/s; the 4GB Barracuda is 9MB/s and the 9GB Barracuda does 14
> > MB/s. It's fairly swift for a machine without much of a processor.
>
> Yeah, you've even got room on that bus for another fairly fast (by those
> standards) drive before you need to start worrying bus contention.  I
> sure hope swap is on the IBM drive.  :)
> 	Greg

Never run more than three big drives on a bus so I never knew. Thanks. And
no, the swap is spread over the two Seagates.

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