From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 21 19:39:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us (btw.aa.net [206.125.75.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A2D11B7B for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:39:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com) Received: from imo.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us (imo.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us [192.168.1.7]) by btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01916; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dennisg@localhost) by imo.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA07493; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:39:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902220339.TAA07493@imo.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Dennis Glatting Date: Sun, 21 Feb 99 19:39:42 -0800 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Subject: Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us References: <199902210729.AAA17355@panzer.plutotech.com> X-No-Archive: : yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On the ST410800W I am getting, according to iozone: > > FWIW, several people have reported bad performance with that > drive when tagged queueing is enabled. Their firmware > revisions, however, were 71xx, not 45xx. Apparantly drives > with firmware that starts with 00 work okay. > I have contacted Seagate. Seagate's technical support staff says Seagate doesn't do firmware upgrades, rather I have to locate a vendor with disks having the revision level I seek and purchase a new disk. What is the source for firmware upgrades? -dpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message