Low disk throughput on Xenix 2.3.2/1542B/wren V
Matti Joutkoski
mattij at tuura.UUCP
Sun Mar 17 21:17:25 AEST 1991
jcurtis at baron..uucp (Jay Curtis) writes:
>Hi.
> I am having a problem with SCO Xenix 2.3.2GT and very low disk
>transfer rates. Here is my configuration:
>Adaptec 1542B DMA=5 irq=11 i/o base=330, bios enabled, 5 Meg DMA
> transfer rate
>Wren V 330 Meg SCSI drive
>Archive 2150S tape drive
>With this config, I am only able to get 124K Bytes/sec. throughput under
>Xenix. Under Dos I get 496 K Bytes/sec. Under ISC Unix, similar rates
>to Dos. Is there a known problem with the scsi drivers under Xenix?
Hi there,
This has been always the same, there is a patch which should improve the
disk performance with SCSI, but it doesn't make any difference.
One thing you could check is, that all your SCSI-devices are in the
SYNCHRONOUS-mode. It makes difference, default parameters what I have
seen has usually been ANYNC. DMA-speed between Adaptec and Motherboard
doesn't make any difference, because the botleneck is not there.
These next words I have wanted to say all of my life:
I never seen so STUPID SCSI-drivers!!!!
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>drives and controller (substitue in a wd1003 controller and Maxtor 2190)
>gave me double the disk throughput. Why???
Yap, and if you are using some AT-IDE harddisks, you will get more disk-
performance. That's the truth.
There have been aloooong time rumours, that SCO will release Xenix/386
version with INTERACTIVE-SCSI-drivers (at last) and the version number
is 2.3.4. It should be released during this spring.
But people who want more performance: Buy a un-expensive AT-IDE harddisk
(ex. 100 MB, almost in every modele there is cache included) and put
your root-filesystem in there. You will SEE the difference.
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