Speeding up a 2 disk Xenix/386-2.3.1 system
Tan Bronson
tan at bronson.UUCP
Thu Jan 11 01:03:37 AEST 1990
I've got two ST-4096 disks on my Xenix system and am looking to
speed it up and was wondering how much benefit a second WD1006 controller
would give me. (I'm not sure I'm willing to risk using RLL on my ST-4096)
I'm aware of the caching controllers, but I figure these are the last
ST-506 disks I will never buy, so I'm reluctant to spend more money which
is not applicable to SCSI (or ESDI).
Also can 2.3.1 support multiple swap devices?
A new WD1006 will cost me roughly $100, so it's the cheapest solution
I can find. The next step is to buy some larger disks, but this requires
me to buy new disks, controller, and if I use SCSI a new OS!
thanks in advance.
p.s. will SCO 3.2 support two WD1006 and a SCSI board ?
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Microvation Consultants (work) bronson at multiflow.com
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