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Brian Cole wrote:
> 
> mdbrown@calweb.com (Mike Brown) writes:
> ]
> ] I have no experience with Digital Processing Technology but I am
> ] currently using an Advansys  ABP-930, it replaced my 2940 and is
> ] considerably faster.  It cost around 1/2 the price and has excellent
> ] tech support.  It ships with drivers for win3.1, win95, win NT, SCO
> ] Unix, Interactive Unix, netware, and you can dl Linux  drivers from
> ] there website.
> ]
> ] It has a 50Mhz RISC processor and does an excellent job of  command
> ] queing and scatter/gather.  I'd very much recommend you check out
> ] there web page BEFORE you purchase anything else.  www.advansys.com
> 
> I've heard good things about AdvanSys here and elsewhere, but I can't
> say I found their web site very informative.  It doesn't even explain
> what the differences are among the ABP-920, 930, 940, and 950 PCI
> controllers (either that, or I was too dumb to find the proper page).
> 
> By the way, the 930 you recommend is flagged as "OEM only" on their
> web page.  Did you mean the 920 (or 940), or do you have an OEM source
> you wouldn;t mind sharing with me?
> 
> brian
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When people say "Brand X is faster than brand Y" do you mean
on a spec sheet?  Data Transfer Rate?  Transactions per hour?

Otherwise you can say things like "EIDE is faster than SCSI2
because of a 17MB/s DTR vs. a 10MB/s DTR".  Please advise
as to what testing you use...

Cheers
Mith