Re: AHA1502 - serial problems

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:30:47 -0300

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980712153124.2059A-100000@entropy.muc.muohio.edu>,
"R
andall K. Norviel" writes:
+-----
| I recently picked up an Adaptec A[HV]-1502 controller (and a Seagate
| Medalist) and discovered that under 2.1.108 I get relatively good performance
| (3.65MB/s), but I drop all packets over my modem's PPP. Under 2.0.34 I get
| lousy performance (1.5MB/s) but no packet loss. I've observed this under
+--->8

The 1502 is a fairly dumb controller which needs a lot of "handholding" by
the CPU; something's gotta give, especially with an OS that normally runs
the system all-out (like Linux, as opposed to Windows).

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electrical and computer engineering
carnegie mellon university			   (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)






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