On Sat 02 Aug at 09:44 Charles Miller (1:206/2406) wrote to Arthur Marsh:
> We have a VLB machine (486/DX2-66 with 64Meg RAM) running
> 3.12/25 user with 3.0 and all the updates/patches applied.
>
> Would upgrading to a PCI bus machine with PCI bus SCSI
> and NIC's be the most important performance upgrade, given
> that we don't want to replace existing hard disks?
> IntraNetWare 4.11 could be added later...
>
CM> SCSI is the way to go.. You offload disk I/O to the card.
CM> Same with the PCI NIC's.. I tried IDE and ISA and let
CM> me tell you that I noticed a big difference when I
CM> upgraded to SCSI.
We're currently running SCSI... at least Mylex are still selling and
supporting the Buslogic HBA's which come in ISA, VLB and PCI versions that
all use the same .DSK driver.
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