From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 18 15:11:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA08181 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08173 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:10:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id JAA07385; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:40:43 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702182310.JAA07385@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Motherboard doesn't like tape drive In-Reply-To: from John Fieber at "Feb 18, 97 05:56:39 pm" To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:40:42 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber stands accused of saying: > On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Do you have "FAILSAFE" in your kernel config? > > Nope. Should I? No; the ncr driver behaves more conservatively when it's defined, I thought that might be a problem. > The one tunable parameter on the archive viper is the buffer > disconnect size. It is currently at 16K (factory default), but > can be adjusted between 2K and 32K. Could that be a factor here? Indeed. Is that the high-water or low-water mark for disconnect? Try fiddling it and see 8) > -john -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[