Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:36:45 -0400 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What happened? Message-ID: <200008090109.TAA54492@mail.fpsn.net> In-Reply-To: <200008080637.XAA09403@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike, I've emailed hypermicro.com (where I got the drives+controller) and they told me 0005 firmware is the latest. Am I missing something? Thanks, Simon On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 23:37:59 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> Great to here there is a fix :-) I have another seagate drive in the same box: >> >> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 >> da1: <SEAGATE ST318436LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device >> da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled >> da1: 17522MB (35885168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2233C) >> >> Same problem I suspect. The drive is just bigger in size. What would you suggest as the best fix for this? can I just >> update the firmware? or going with a different controller is better? I doubt i have write cache turned on as the drive >> seems to work much slower creating empty files than 5.4k 40 gig IDE maxtor drive (creates 10,000 empty files 10x faster >> than the SCSI i got). Still not exactly sure why. > >You have the same range of fixes available in either case; the firmware >fix is probably the best. > >As for performance; there are a plethora of tuning options available to >you; I would suggest that you experiment with them and learn something >for yourself. 8) > >-- >... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his >rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want >to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force >people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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