Re: nbd vs. failing HDDs (was Re: Status)
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:58:56PM +0200, Ingo J?rgensmann wrote:
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> > But yes, on Macs SCSI was always slow, afair... ;-)
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> I still haven't found the time to get it working in Linux, but I did
> find and buy a 100BaseT NuBus card. It even has a chip on it that
> appears to be the same one as in some cards that are supported on x86,
> so it might even be relatively simple.
I have one of those cards too but there are more important things to work
on first.
> I don't expect to actually get close to 100Mb/s out of it since NuBus
> only runs at either 10 or 20MHz, but it should beat out the 10BaseT
> cards.
Which machines have 10 MHz NuBus, BTW?
> The SCSI performance on a Mac depends a lot on the hardware. My IIfx was
> so slow that I think I let it run for two days doing a dist-upgrade of a
> minimal install. The disks do something in the 100kB/s range as I
> recall. Most other Macs are much better.
Not exactly. Here's the situation:
NCR5380 chip in PIO mode (as used on IIfx): slow (at best)
NCR5380 chip in PDMA mode (other early Macs): broken
DP53C9X chip in PIO mode (as used on 660av & 840av): stable but slow
DP53C9X chip in PDMA mode (other Quadras etc): stable and fast
The web site has some info about the individual Mac models:
http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/status/
Finn
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> I recently acquired an FWB JackHammer card, which can take 68-pin
> SCSI drives. It uses an NCR 53c720, so it should be possible to
> get it working and get much better SCSI performance than the
> built-in SCSI interfaces of any Mac (including ppc models).
>
> Brad Boyer
> flar@allandria.com
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