Re: Linux as a SCSI _Target_ device?

Matthias Andree (mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:46:33 +0100


On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:31:41AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> The specification allows for 67MHz PCI devices, but I don't know such SCSI
> controllers, only AGP graphics cards (which have a trick to double bandwidth
> again, resulting in 533 MB/s).

Which is not so much of a trick, but a simple consideration:

* double the data transfer rate

* transfer one data word on each of the clock cycle edges
- you usually only use the rising edge of a clock cycle to
- transfer data.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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