Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 01:26:31 -0400 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What happened? Message-ID: <200008081252.GAA50952@mail.fpsn.net> In-Reply-To: <200008080523.WAA08996@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Great to here there is a fix :-) I have another seagate drive in the same box: da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <SEAGATE ST318436LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 17522MB (35885168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2233C) Same problem I suspect. The drive is just bigger in size. What would you suggest as the best fix for this? can I just update the firmware? or going with a different controller is better? I doubt i have write cache turned on as the drive seems to work much slower creating empty files than 5.4k 40 gig IDE maxtor drive (creates 10,000 empty files 10x faster than the SCSI i got). Still not exactly sure why. Thanks again, Simon On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:23:56 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> Here it is: >> >> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 >> da0: <SEAGATE ST39236LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > ^^^^ >This firmware is known to interact badly with the ahc driver. You have >three options: > > - Use the Adaptec setup utility to disable write caching. > - Use a different SCSI controller. > - Get the firmware update from Seagate and fix the drive. > >-- >... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his >rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want >to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force >people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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