Using bus-mastering capabilities (was Re: SCSI adapters for UNIX)

[Thomas Solomon]

In article <1991May19.011750.25183 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>As far as SCSI controllers are concerned, ISCs drivers take full advantage
>of the bus mastering capabilities of the adaptec.  Therefore in a system
>with heavy cpu load it will run circles around the Future Domain.
>

Out of curiosity, does SCO's drivers take full advantage of bus mastering
capabilities of interface cards also?  (Either Adaptec's new AHA-1740 or
UltraStor's new 24F EISA SCSI cards.)  This may be an important factor in
choosing between ISC and SCO.

				Tom Solomon
				solomon at chaos.utexas.edu