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to: TOM RUDDY
from: MIKE BILOW
date: 1998-01-19 23:32:00
subject: NOVELL & WD 6.4GIG

Tom Ruddy wrote in a message to Jeff Dunlop:
 TR>   Hmmm. I have three segments now. One 100 and two 10BTs.
 TR> They run off a trio of 3Com 59X5 PCI cards on IRQ's 3, 5,
 TR> and 7 (printers are off workstations). The two on-board
 TR> controllers (HP LH 133 server) and tape controller (Adaptec
 TR> 2940) all run on IRQ 10. Do you really think I could take a
 TR> hub and twelve users and put it on another NIC? Would that
 TR> really make the users happy? Some of them copy 20-30 megs of
 TR> stuff on and off the server at a clip. And it's easy for
 TR> them to bury the server at 100% for several minutes at time.
IRQ sharing among the SCSI controllers in this scenario is a very bad idea.
 
-- Mike
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