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Date:      Thu, 13 May 1999 22:26:21 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IBM scsi drives
Message-ID:  <199905140426.WAA20888@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905131109000.27263-100000@feral.com>

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905131109000.27263-100000@feral.com> you wrote:
> 
> 
> I've had some reasonable good experiences in some contexts with the IBM
> drives- but they have a wierd property of not working if your host adapter
> negotiates sync speeds before negotiating wide. Make sure these drives
> work for you before you pay!

It doesn't make much sense to negotiate sync before wide since,
according to the spec, a wide negotiation invalidates any sync
setting.  The aic7xxx driver always reverts to async after a wide
negotiation and will renegotiate sync if appropriate.

--
Justin


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