[1871] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Latest aicxxx driver (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yuri mironoff)
Wed May 14 11:53:22 1997
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:48:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: yuri mironoff <yuri@buster.rgti.com>
To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199705132211.RAA09695@iworks.InterWorks.org>
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Daniel M. Eischen wrote:
> > BTW the driver no longer prints out the number of SCBs per device during
> > startup.
>
> It should if you boot verbose...
>
> > Tried it with "verbose" and manual termination settings - still no
> > error messages, just locks solid. I noticed that this happens when both
> > drives are being accessed at the same time. I set the driver up for 16
> > CMD/LUN, the proc entry says that 16 are being used - I guess one of the
> > drives doesn't support more than 1.
>
> You didn't say if that was with or without SMP? Also, what drives are
> you using. You only mention one IBM DORS.
The other drive is a Quantum 540S. Didn't try it without SMP yet.
>
> Try 8 commands per LUN and see if that works.
It does work with 8 - however I dont think this excercises the paging
mechanism. (Also I reeaaaly want to use as many as possible ;)))
Does the driver downgrade the number of SCBs for a specific device
if the current number is too high? Some of the other drivers do this
successfully - it would be a nice idiot-proof feature to implement.
Regards,
Y.
