On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Michael Tibor wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Stanley, Jeremy wrote:
> 
> > I believe it is 66MBps per channel, but keep in mind that Ultra2 SCSI
> > runs 80MBps per device and has been around for a couple of years.
> > Ultra3 is supposed to run around 160MBps.  My U2/5-drive RAID0 has a
> > "theoretical" bandwidth of 400MBps
> 
> Actually, that's 80MB/sec per *bus* not per device.  Remember, your
> typical 32 bit PCI bus tops out at about 132MB/sec anyhow.
> 
> Ultra3's 160 MB/sec would be nice, but I would think you'd need a 64 bit
> PCI bus to do it right, and I've only seen those on Alpha motherboards.

And the new macs. :)

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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