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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SCSI-2 adapter recommendation for 386bsd Date: 27 Aug 1993 02:49:32 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <25jsns$gj4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CCBLIw.J7A@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <25jh8g$r5h@milou.eunet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <25jh8g$r5h@milou.eunet.fi>, Bror 'Count' Heinola <count@muncca.fi> wrote: >In article <CCBLIw.J7A@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes: >>Hi, >> Having read some discussion /summary on the unreliability of 1542C adapter, >>I will like to know what are the "reliable" alternatives for SCSI-2 devices ? > > Hmm, I wish that someone would've told ME that 1542C is unreliable.. > Uptime certainly thinks otherwise :) (Up 32 days & some hours) 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. > > I don't have any complaints, except transfer speed is pretty slow, > only about 250k / write and 600k / read... Disk is Seagate ST41200N > (CDC Imprimis Wren VII), 1GB 5.25" FH. 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? -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu