From: "Robert Comer" 

> If the AS400 is anything like the RS6000, it's got more than one scsi
> channel...

It does.

> My comment was aimed more at PC class machines where you get one scsi port
> on the motherboard, on those anything over 3 drives isn't going to make
much
> difference because you max out the transfer rate of the scsi bus. The
drives
> aren't the bottleneck, the scsi channel is.

I know, I just had to brag a bit.    (The AS/400 bus is also quite a bit
faster than a PC bus too.)

- Bob Comer



"Geo."  wrote in message news:4057a332{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4055b3a5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > The AS/400 likes more drives, the more, the faster it goes. I have 15
> drives
> > and I rarely get over 30% disk utilization at 68% capacity. 
>
> If the AS400 is anything like the RS6000, it's got more than one scsi
> channel...
>
> My comment was aimed more at PC class machines where you get one scsi port
> on the motherboard, on those anything over 3 drives isn't going to make
much
> difference because you max out the transfer rate of the scsi bus. The
drives
> aren't the bottleneck, the scsi channel is.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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