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Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
on 11/11/01 10:21 PM, Austin Franklin at darkroom@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> the limit of a 32bit PCI bus at 133MHz (but still in the limits of an
>> Adaptec 29160 controller)
>
> The standard PCI bus is 33 MHz (or 66MHz), NOT 133MHz. Perhaps you mean
> 132M BYTES/sec? Even at that, you can't get near %80 of that, if you're
> lucky. 132M bytes/sec is the burst rate. There is substantial overhead on
> the PCI bus that lowers that substantially.
>
Actually, he did not say "standard", and the current PCI standard _is_ 133
MHz. 33 MHz is ancient technology, 66 MHz is antique technology, 100 MHz is
yesterday's news, and 133 MHz is the current defacto PCI standard.
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