jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) (04/04/91)
In article <32580007@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> linley@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Linley Gwennap) writes: >The June '91 release >of HP-UX will support a high-performance EISA SCSI adapter providing >a 10MB/second (burst) transfer rate to the disk. What _is_ a "high-performance EISA SCSI adapter?" From my own possibly limited knowledge of technobabble I would guess this to be an "Extended Industry Standard Architecture SCSI adapter," which is something I would expect to drop into a high-end PC clone. Do these new HP machines use the EISA bus for peripherals? If so, I somehow missed that in the earlier postings. -- Jerry Callen jcallen@encore.com
clc5q@madras.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) (04/06/91)
In article <14488@encore.Encore.COM> jcallen@encore.Com (Jerry Callen) writes: !#In article <32580007@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> linley@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Linley Gwennap) writes: !#!#The June '91 release !#!#of HP-UX will support a high-performance EISA SCSI adapter providing !#!#a 10MB/second (burst) transfer rate to the disk. !# !#What _is_ a "high-performance EISA SCSI adapter?" From my own possibly limited !#knowledge of technobabble I would guess this to be an "Extended Industry !#Standard Architecture SCSI adapter," which is something I would expect to !#drop into a high-end PC clone. Do these new HP machines use the EISA bus !#for peripherals? If so, I somehow missed that in the earlier postings. Yes, they use the EISA bus for peripherals. The adapter allows 3rd-party SCSI disks to be cheaply interfaced to EISA. EISA peripheral buses will max out at about 33MBytes/second, which is well beyond today's SCSI capabilities, and far beyond a PC clone, high end or otherwise. HP has previously announced that their whole workstation line will migrate toward the EISA bus for peripherals. Their previous peripheral bus was HP-IB, which was on the order of using two tin cans and a string (just a little joke there, HP.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975. ||| clc5q@virginia.edu (Clark L. Coleman)
linley@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Linley Gwennap) (04/09/91)
> (Jerry Callen) asks: > Do these new HP machines use the EISA bus for peripherals? The new Series 700 systems have built-in LAN and disc access and also offer an EISA connection for additional peripherals. Number of EISA slots depends on the model number. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: The views expressed here do not Linley Gwennap represent the views of the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC Marketing Company. Caveat emptor. Hewlett-Packard