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Date:      Sat, 25 Oct 1997 19:29:27 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        se@FreeBSD.ORG (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        dkelly@hiwaay.net, joe@via.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.2-RELEASE '875 SCSI won't negotiage
Message-ID:  <199710251829.TAA00990@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19971025111540.12105@mi.uni-koeln.de> from "Stefan Esser" at Oct 25, 97 11:15:40 am

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As Stefan Esser wrote...
> On 1997-10-20 20:24 -0500, dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> This IS low!
> 
> Seems your drive does not signal early command completion
> on writes, even if tags are used (or did you disable tags ?)
> 
> What's the state of the WCE bit in mode page 8 ?
> 
> # scsi -f /dev/sd0 -m 8
> WCE:  1
> [ ... having read further down, I see you DTRT WRT WCE ... ]

Side stepping but interesting all the same:

FreeBSD 2.2.1R / NCR810 / DEC RZ29B / Pentium 100 / WCE=1 / on /usr
              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU 
%CPU
              3980 97.6  5921 25.2  2063 14.1  4094 98.3  5813 20.4 

ditto but WCE=0

Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec
%CPU
      100  3957 97.4  5798 24.4  2057 14.0  4059 97.3  6773 23.7 102.9 5.6

Oh: DEC RZ29B == Seagate ST15150N Barracuda 4Gb.

Seems that WCE is a mixed blessing to say the least. All of this is an
ASUS P100 box

Wilko
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