aha2930u2

[dledford at redhat.com]

"J. Alan Eldridge" wrote:
> 
> I have a stock aha2940. I'm looking to get a second card, and maybe to replace
> the 2940 as well.
> 
> Question, to those in the know, is: would I get any improvement with standard
> SCSI2 drives on a 2930U2? I would guess not.

If you had multiple regular SCSI 2 drives on an Ultra2 controller you would
still see some improvement.  The Ultra2 controllers have a lower latency DMA
Scatter/Gather fetch mechanism than the older controllers had and perform
better when under larger loads.

-- 
  Doug Ledford   <dledford at redhat.com>
   Opinions expressed are my own, but
      they should be everybody's.


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