From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 14 08:27:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA18700 for current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:27:36 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA18691 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:27:31 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA20025; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:19:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511141619.JAA20025@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns To: davidg@root.com Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:19:45 -0700 (MST) Cc: hsu@cs.hut.fi, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511140700.XAA00132@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 13, 95 11:00:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1197 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > 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. have you attempted to verify this by replacing the Adaptec controllers with, say, NCR in a similar environment? Sequencer code written in the face of manufacturer opposition simply does not give me the warm fuzzies (no slight on the Adaptec driver intended -- though if you want to view it as a slight on Adaptec, feel free to do so 8-)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.