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- From: lnz@lucid.com (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
- Subject: Re: Ulrastore 34f Local bus controller
- In-Reply-To: wcn@cs.brown.edu's message of Fri, 25 Dec 1992 15:02:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.180257.18619@lucid.com>
- Organization: Lucid, Inc.
- References: <78806@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Dec25.081941.15205@lucid.com> <1992Dec25.150228.15902@cs.brown.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 18:02:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.150228.15902@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
- In article <1992Dec25.081941.15205@lucid.com> lnz@lucid.com (Leonard N. Zubkoff) writes:
- >In article <78806@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin) writes:
- >
- > I just found out that Gateway 2000 is offering the Ultrastore 34F Local Bus
- > SCSI controller for $215.00. Is this a good price? What are the specs on the
- > card? Is it scsi-1 and scsi-2? I tried gateway but as usual their lines
- > were real busy and I thought I'de ty here. Anyone with any info please e-mail
- > me. Thanks ahead of time.
- >
- >I just chatted with the folks at UltraStor a couple of days ago regarding their
- >products. According to them, the 34F is a non-caching VL-BUS SCSI controller
- >that supports SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and Fast SCSI at up to 10mb/sec.
-
- Isn't Ultrastore 14F claiming to be 10mb/s? I saw Hard Driver
- International's ads about this. So what's the difference between the ISA
- version and the VL-bus version?
-
- All of their SCSI controllers (14F - ISA, 24F - EISA, 34F - VL-BUS) are
- bus-mastering non-caching SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and Fast SCSI at 10mb/sec except for
- the (14N - ISA), which is non bus-mastering and only 8mb/sec. These are the
- transfer rates to the *disk*; they are not the transfer rates to memory, which
- is limited by the speed of the individual buses.
-
- Leonard
-