Re: U160 on Adaptec 39160

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:30:14AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> 39160 does 80MB/s/channel, the 160MB/s happens pretty much only as
>> the sum of both channels. I've had one for a couple of years, and it
>> performs very well, though it won't ever quite live up to the marketing
>> gimmick for bandwidth on a single channel. ISTR something about RAID
>> across channels involved, but I just use disks directly instead.

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:53:25PM +0100, Patrick Mau wrote:
> the Adaptec 39160 is indeed capable of doing 160MB/s/channel. Did I
> misread the whole thread ? Here's the dmesg output of my system.
> I get >40MB/s per disk and >80MB/s per channel.
> Maybe it's because of your DVD and DAT device. I only have disks
> connected to the adapter.

64-bit vs. 32-bit PCI. Please follow up with the PCI info from dmesg
to let them know of where to get the (uncommon/expensive) right hardware.


Bill