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Re: 600ua questions



>>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:17:19 -0500
>>>>> "JE" == Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com> wrote:
JE> 
JE> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:08:45PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:
>> 
>> 1. It has two SCSI discs and QLogic adapter, how fast could be SCSI
>> I/O? right after install copying files from one to another is done
>> one ~2Mb/s...
JE> 
JE> I believe the adapter is a QLogic ISP-1040, good to 40MB/sec, ie
JE> Ultra Wide. But it will only be as good as the disks, so if you
JE> have 20MB/sec drives, that's your limit.

Can anyone tell me, how fast these disks should be:
qlogicisp : new isp1020 revision ID (5)
scsi0 : QLogic ISP1020 SCSI on PCI bus 01 device 20 irq 27 I/O base 0x9000
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: DEC       Model: RZ2CC-KB (C) DEC  Rev: DC2B
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: DEC       Model: RZ2CC-KB (C) DEC  Rev: DC2B
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8380080 [4091 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8380080 [4091 MB] [4.1 GB]

>> 2. A friend of mine has a 533Mhz PC164 alpha with IDE disk, and he
>> says it is very slow, even I remember Jay Estabrook wrote here,
>> that up to 16Mb/s could be gained on IDE. Can anyone clarify?
JE> 
JE> You may need to enable/use the CYPRESS 693 (IIRC) IDE driver to wring the
JE> best performance from it.

Does not it has CMD646 controller?

>> 3. The soundcard that comes with Miatas are ISA Creative SoundBlaster?
JE> 
JE> ES1888, as someone else mentioned. This is SB Pro (ie 8-bit) equivalent
JE> IIRC. Also, IRQ 5, DMA 0, normal IO base for SB (0x330?).

only 8bit? uhh...

>> 4. What kernel modules/features correspond to Ethernet and FDDI
>> adapters installed in the system?
JE> 
JE> Use the TULIP module (or DE4X5) with the builtin 21143 NIC
JE> chipset.

And which one will be better?

>> 5. I have _two_ 4D20T cards in it, both with 3D glasses sockets and
>> even I know, this cards are rather old compared with modern ones,
>> it will be great to get something of them. Any chance?
JE> 
JE> These are OEMed cards from Itergraph (IIRC), and are not supported
JE> under XFree86, AFAIK.

Or may be 4D20, without 'T'. X works on it just fine.

-- 
Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia



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