Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:06:57 +0100 From: Lars Koeller <Lars.Koeller@post.uni-bielefeld.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Lars Koeller <Lars.Koeller@post.uni-bielefeld.de> freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conclusion: Seagate Python firmware and hanging SCBs on 2940! Message-ID: <199802240806.AA214087617@pollux.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: grog's message of Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:01:11 %2B1030. <19980224180111.16031@freebie.lemis.com>
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Oh!
In reply to Greg Lehey who wrote:
> On Tue, 24 February 1998 at 8:28:40 +0100, Lars Koeller wrote:
> > --------
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just for your information! Don't use any combination of Seagate Python DAT
> > drives, Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller and FreeBSD or Linux!
>
> This is somewhat overstating the case. I've been using exactly that
> combination for 15 months, and I've been very satisfied.
Hmmmm! Are you enable tagged comman queuing? What software? Tar seems
to be o.k. dump most time can recover (better survive) 2 hanging SCB!
But software which does continuous write lage blocks (30MB) and have
a really high optimizing buffer queuing algorithm seems to mak
problems, please test
ftp://ftp.zn.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/linux/afbackup-2.11.3.tar.gz
Lars
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