Umm, I`ve been plaing with this a bit more and am also thinking its gonna be
the drives. Although, when I disabled the arrays acceleration, it raised from
about 4mb a sec to 7.5mb a sec. More respectable, but still lame for Ultra
Wide SCSI 2. Both of the drives are also Ultra wide. The cable I`m using is a
compaq one with a built in active terminator, which I`m wondering if it is
faulty. Looks like I`m gonna need to take it into work and play with it
there, or just send the lot of it towards the filing cabinet (bin). Unless
anyone wants some of this stuff to play with?
Mike
On Friday 26 Apr 2002 9:03 pm, Paul Sims wrote:
> I'd suspect a dodgy HDD - if the disk has a Compaq diagnostic partition
> (hit F10 at startup) or the machine has ROM-based diags, check the disk out
> thoroughly. Otherwise, use the nearest HDD diag s/w that comes to hand.
> Suspect the card last of all - performance should be (more or less)
> OS-independent, as the SmartArray does most of the legwork itself.
>
> Other possibilities : duff SCSI cable - no, it's not just a bit if wire,
> incorrect termination - the SmartArray will auto-terminate it's end, but if
> you are using a single HDD (ie. not in a Compaq scsi drive cage) you may
> need to set termination on the drive if it is the last/only drive in the
> chain. Also - what spec is the card? SCSI 2,3,Fast, Fast/Wide
> W/UW/UW3..etc, etc, etc...??? All give different transfer rates depending
> on the drive. A slow drive on a fast controller or a fast drive on a slow
> controller will work at the speed of the slowest device on the chain.
>
> > Anyone had any experience with these? I`m playing with one from work and
>
> an
>
> > 18.2GB SCSI drive. Problem is I can only get about 6mb a second at best.
> > Also, problems using it in windows? Any ideas...?
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