Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:00:34 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns Message-ID: <199511140700.XAA00132@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Nov 95 08:48:42 %2B0200." <199511140648.IAA28625@shadows.cs.hut.fi>
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>David Greenman writes: > > >The troubling disks for us seem to be seagate hawks, but I have also had > > >problems with an ibm 0662 (but it could be seagates in the same bus). I > > >have tried a 2G barracuda and 4G hawk for news spool, both with same > > >results, disk gets confused and scsi driver returns I/O errors for all > > >accesses or the system panics. > > > > We've been having similar problems with Seagate Hawks on wcarchive. I plan > > to switch them out for 4GB Quantum Grand Prixs in the near term. > >Have you discussed about this with seagate? With sparcs they seem to work >just fine. No, I haven't. I think the Hawks have firmware bug(s) that only show up after days of heavy disk I/O and/or when interacting with drives from other manufacturers. I have very little patience for this this kind of thing which is why I have no plans to mess around with Seagate tech support. Of course it's also possible that there is a problem with the Adaptec 2940 sequencer code that's in FreeBSD, but I'm beginning to seriously doubt that. -DG
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