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Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:35:40 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: What SCSI adapter to choose !?

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In <5.1.0.14.2.20030831091028.021ce760@mail.vcnet.com>, on 08/31/03
at 11:09 AM, Steve Carter said:

>and 40mB/s devices on the same single-ended (SE) bus. I have no
>experience yet with Low Voltage Differential (LVD), but it seems fair to
>assume that this BIOS feature would continue with LVD.

A resonable conclusion. They do. In fact, there's even more settings
available. The settings screens are pretty full.

>Your super-duper ultra2/160/320 hard drives will operate as SE, but at a
>far-less-than-optimum transfer rate. It might be an acceptable interim
>solution for someone, like me, who has yet to buy his new dual LVD Host
>Adapter.

It worked for me. I upgraded the drives first. Even running at ultra
speeds, the performance bump was noticable. The bump when going from UW
to U160 was very noticable.

Steven

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