benchmarking SCSI host adapters

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1686 at chinacat.Unicom.COM> chip at chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>I have in my hot little hands two SCSI controllers - an Adaptec AHA-1542B
>and a BusTek BT-542B.  I've been trying to do some benchmark comparisons
>of the two using the "bonnie" program.  Both cards were tested in the
>same system, all running with their default settings (5.0MB DMA, Sync
>Negot disab, etc.).  I was told the BusTek gives about 3X the performance
>of the Adaptec.  I'm not seeing this - I see 1X performance.

The bustek is supposed to be fully compatible with the Adaptec and should
therefore have very similar performance numbers (as your test showed).

If someone told you it has 3x better performance, they were comparing
some other card to it.  Maybe the bustek EISA to the Adaptec ISA or
the bustek to a ST-506. 


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