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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!news.eunet.no!nuug!news.eunet.fi!count From: count@muncca.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SCSI-2 adapter recommendation for 386bsd Date: 27 Aug 1993 21:02:07 GMT Organization: ImproVision Entertainment UnLtd. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <25lsof$pag@milou.eunet.fi> References: <CCBLIw.J7A@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <25jh8g$r5h@milou.eunet.fi> <25jsns$gj4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: muncca.fi In article <25jsns$gj4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: > >The first revs of the C model had problems. Later releases have been >fixed, so while the statement held true a while back, it no longer does. > Yes, I know about the problem with out-of-spec cables. But a problem like that doesn't IMHO make a controller unreliable. If all parts are in spec, everything works, so there isn't any problem :) >Seems pretty abysmal, Have you tried messing with block sizes/frag sizes/ >rotdelay (Somebody told me rotdelay of 1 is the same as 4, but I haven't >verified this), and that kind of stuff? Not yet. I'll update the OS to 0.9 and then I'll give it a try. Does anyone have a similar setup or similar disk with some other controller? Care to post your results (Iozone or bonnie, please) and include your partition information etc. ??? Thanks in advance :) -- Bror 'Count' Heinola # E-mail: # Network admin of muncca.fi Perustie 21 A 1 # count@snafu.muncca.fi # Count in IRC 00330 HELSINKI # an14832@anon.penet.fi # "Be excellent to each Tel: +358-0-773-4289 # ...free your mind... # other!" - Bill & Ted