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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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