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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 10:34:05 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Wee Teck Ng <weeteck@eecs.umich.edu>
Cc:        gibbs@plutotech.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: very slow scsi performance 
Message-ID:  <199802101736.KAA19370@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 20:34:38 EST." <199802100134.UAA03281@singapore.eecs.umich.edu> 

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>hi justin
>
>i've checked the freebsd-scsi archive for info on the SDTR msg, and 
>found your explanation (basically it's a diagnostic msg). do you 
>(or any other folks on the mailing list) have any idea why our 
>western digital drives perform so poorly?

The driver is probably winding up performing async transfers to the device
due to a bug in the negotiation code.  If you boot with "-v" the driver
will probably tell you this.  All known negotiations problems have been
fixed in the CAM version of the driver so you may want to try using CAM on
one of your systems.

BTW, the WD disks are known to be low on both the performance and quality
scale.  I wouldn't suggest buying them.

>thanks
>wee teck

--
Justin



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