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Eric van Bezooijen <eric@godzilla.berkeley.edu> wrote in article
<65vmkf$rq5@masters0.InterNex.Net>...
> In article <3481bb21.0@bingnews.binghamton.edu>,  <jake@binghamton>
wrote:
> >The physical limit for transfer rate of today's HD is about 15mb/sec. No
HD
> >can sustain a rate higher than that.
> >33MB/sec of UDMA and 40MB/sec of UWSCSI are theoretical limits.
> >Do your home work and don't brag your scsi here.
> >It's a waste of money if not used as multitasking server.
> >BTW, scsi cards usually are trouble makers.
> 
> Not true.  It can be much more convenient.  I can have three hard drives,
> a scanner, a tape backup, a zip drive, and a CD-ROM drive all hooked up
to
> the same high performance SCSI bus, without mucking with the parallel
port,
> serial port, floppy port, or other not-designed-for-high-data-xfer-rates
bus.

That's great but many scanners and tape drives are not well behaved SCSI
devices and if you multitask they'll kill your HD performance.  Often the
non-HD SCSI gadgets should be isolated on a different SCSI channel for the
high multitasking performance.

Regards,

Ron Reaugh