Ciprico 6500 - Manual (Page 47)

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Chapter 3 Display/Operation Panel
ARRAY INFORMATION Page 3 - 17
The Synchronous Offset represents the number of bytes a SCSI ACK signal
may lag a REQ signal. 16 (10H) is the maximum Offset allowed. Although
communications allow up to a 16 byte offset, each byte is always
acknowledged. For additional information, see the SCSI-2 specification.
MEGoMETER
(DISPLAY)
The
0(*O0(7(5 displays the transfer rate in megabytes per second. Because
transfer rates vary considerably moment to moment, the rate shown is actually
the average of transfer rates for a two-second period. This averaging yields a
more accurate representation of the overall transfer performance.