On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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. :)
And most Xeon boards. Also, Intel's L440GX P2/P3 board has a couple 66
MHz slots -- that's 264 MB/sec, if you can find a card that'll do 66 MHz.
Scott
