From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 21 20: 4:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A831912297 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id VAA22794; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:04:05 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199902220404.VAA22794@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N In-Reply-To: <199902220339.TAA07493@imo.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us> from Dennis Glatting at "Feb 21, 1999 7:39:42 pm" To: dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:04:05 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis Glatting wrote... > > > > 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. That's pretty lame. > What is the source for firmware upgrades? I don't know, I've never upgraded the firmware on a Seagate disk. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message