Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:37:41 -0500 From: "Ken Menzel" <kenm@icarz.com> To: "Scott Long" <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Adaptec 3200 on FreeBSD current (rc2) Message-ID: <07bd01c2b67b$dcc9f1d0$ecdb7bd1@kenxp> References: <001401c2b358$97a7dd90$ecdb7bd1@kenxp> <3E185E29.1010502@btc.adaptec.com> <01f501c2b59f$a1d36b10$ecdb7bd1@kenxp> <3E19F266.8060204@btc.adaptec.com>
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Thanks again Scott, Do you want me to submit a Problem Report for this (for documentation of the issue)? More info: I just tried a normal tape drive without a changer and everything worked fine (da0 is there). Turns out there is an onboard controller on the Dell 2500 server and we moved the tape changer there to get around this problem for now. I would guess from a performance point of view we can improve our setup in the Dell 2500. I am running all 6 drives on one channel (10K RPM Drives), the tape drive on the other channel. I think there is a little dongle thing (SCSI Backplane daughter card?)) I can buy from Dell that will allow me to split the drives across the 2 channels. I can keep the tape drive on the mother board controller and use RAID 10 with one array on channel 1 and the other array on channel 2. Do you think that would improve performance of the SCSI subsystem significantly? My old setup was just the easy way! We are running the Adaptec 3200 with 512Meg of RAM and battery backup option. It's seems to be very reliable and fast. Thanks for any advice and for the help. I am now installing 5.0 RC2 on this box! Ken <much cut> > > I have philosophical reservations about putting tapes/cdroms/etc on > a RAID controller, but that's not the point here =-) I have an > Ecrix tape changer in my lab that I'll try to reproduce this on. > > Scott > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Scott Long" > > To: "Ken Menzel" > > Cc: > > Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 11:32 AM > > Subject: Re: Adaptec 3200 on FreeBSD current > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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