[1623] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Thanks to all of you.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Wed Mar 26 21:47:57 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:42:16 -0800
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <3339D77C.8B6@piper.hamline.edu> (message from Robert Johannes on
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:12:12 -0600)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:12:12 -0600
From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
I'm getting the Quantum tempest tm3200S 3.2 gigs and will be hosted by
the BusLogic BT-948 ultra-scsi host adapter. Now I'm wondering if
there's any thing I should particularly pay attention to when I'm
installing it to run with linux. Please let me know. Just one
question, which would be the cable I would need to connect my bt-948 to
the devices - the bt-948 i ordered does not come with a cable; it is
just the card and software.
Yeah, pay attention to finding a different hard drive. I had previously heard
that the Fireball TM had not been placed on BusLogic's compatibility list when
this topic came up on the SERVER-LINUX list a couple of weeks ago. So I
borrowed a drive from BusLogic over the weekend to test it out for myself.
Even with it as the only drive on a BT-948, I could not get the BIOS scan to
complete properly if I set the drive to a 20.0 MB/second transfer rate. I was
able to boot successfully with the drive set to 10.0 MB/second, so I ran some
further torture tests. It failed to complete a heavy I/O load test after EXT2
kernel warnings appeared on the console. That same test works perfectly fine
on my Wide Quantum Atlas drives.
The Fireball Tempest might work adequately if tagged queuing is disabled, but I
didn't pursue such a test, and I am now generally mistrustful of this model.
Leonard
