Subject: Re: NetBsd as A File Server
To: None <sam@epita.fr>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/28/1999 17:08:38
> > We also support the Qlogic 1080 controller, which also does LVD.
> > It's a 64-bit PCI card, but it appears to work fine in a 32-bit PCI
> > slot. I do however guess that the Advansys cards are both cheaper
> > and easier to find a reseller for.
>
> Do you thing that if we get a motherboard with 64bits PCI
> slots, and a Qlogic Card it will improve perfs?
That probably depends on whether you have a sufficient number of
fast disks on the SCSI bus to saturate the 32-bit PCI bus at the
normal speed (isn't that 33MHz?) (?).
> By the way is there any 64bit-PCI NIC?
I was of the impression that there is one where the driver is
about to be integrated in -current. Wasn't it an Adaptec card?
AIC-6915? I'm not sure it's been integrated yet, though.
- H=E5vard