From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 19 16:22:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09762 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (root@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09662; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA18756; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:21:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:21:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us To: Stefan Esser cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TESTERS NEEDED: Softupdates looks Very good. In-Reply-To: <19980719222526.A25289@mi.uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Stefan Esser wrote: > On 1998-07-12 17:30 -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > Negotiations may be started by both the drive or host adapter > > > at any time. But except for IBM, most vendors leave it up to > > > the host system to send the first message (which the driver > > > does after receiving the result of an INQUIRY command). > > > > Ok, makes sense.. I was just wondering. :-) > > > > And I guess that last part about IBM drives is a GoodThing? > > It doesn't really matter. The IBM driver have > other annoying firmware features (e.g. can't > deal with a "start motor" command in certain > situation where it could be considered a NOP), > and they sometimes drop the number of tagged > commands they can deal with for no apparent > reason. But I'm still thinking that the DDRS > is a rather good buy, currently ;-) I thought that tag problem was only with certain Quantum drives. :-) Well, these are DCAS drives, and have worked without a single hitch so far, but I wouldn't exactly say I put them under any major stress. Knock on wood. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message