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Laurent-David Hasson wrote:
> 
> I have had a BusLogic 956C (Fast/Wide SCSI II) card for a couple of months now,
> and 2 HAWK 1GB F/W drives. I have been a little bit disappointed by the
> performance of that combo under Win'95.
> 
> I posted a few questions, and the result is that:
>    - Win'95 is imply not a good SCSI plaform
>    - The BusLogic adapter is not a great performer....
> 
>   I agree with the first one, and i will probably try to install Linux and NT
> for fun and see what kind of performance i get. The second argument however
> surprised me... Can anybody confirm this "allegation" ? Should i send the
> BusLogic back and get another Fast/Wide adapter ?

Well, I have been doing some adapter & drive testing (it wasn't
my plan to do this testing, but I ended up doing it anyway).
I found that the BusLogic doesn't look very impressive at all
UNTIL you give it a high-performance drive to work with. With
a low-performance drive, the NCR-based board I tried (Promise
with 53c825) was faster under Linux on some things and about
the same under win95. When I tried a Quantum 2GB Atlas (uh,
32150W), the buslogic pulled ahead, and by a large margin
in some tests. I was quite stunned initially to install a
wide/fast storage subsystem only to have benchmarks of all
kinds tell me that my "junky" EIDE drive was faster!

BTW, I think my testing has convinced me that a single-disk
system can gain little from wide scsi. Just get a blazing
scsi-2 drive and a quality controller.

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