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A spec sheet is not transferring data on my machine the scsi card is
and therefore, that is what I use.  Faster is faster, I haven't seen
any definitive testing of either board, in my machine Windows loads
faster, Hexen loads faster, and all of my benchmarks do say it's
faster (SI 8.0, pctools sysinfo, qbench 1.3, and coretest3.03).

As for the stuff I can't verify, in Linux it feels faster and
theoretically should be since it can cache commands and handle up to
1700 scatter/gather requests.  Spec sheets are neat and can be
somewhat informative, benchmarks are neat and can be somewhat
informative but I rely on "seat of the pants" when I say it's faster.

--Mike B.

BTW, I bought my Advansys controller as a quick technology SIDE-2930
from HDSS in Sacramento, CA.

Mithrandir <mithrandir@ids.net> wrote:

>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
>> 
>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