[2966] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: BusLogic problems...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu Dec 18 05:19:21 1997
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 01:56:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de>
cc: root@olupot.astra.net, lnz@dandelion.com, rstagg@csc.com,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199712180940.KAA11252@zrt2.gfz-potsdam.de>
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> "Dan Hollis writes"
> |> Might as well include the Seagate ST43400N in the blacklist as being
> |> unable to handle synchronous transfers.
> Huh?
>
> esp0: Target 2 now Synchronous at 4.0 mb/s max transmit rate
> sd2 at esp0 target 2 lun 0
> sd2: <Seagate ST43400N cyl 2732 alt 2 hd 21 sec 99>
>
> That's from an old Sparc2 running SunOS 4.1.3 ...
>
> Didn't find any message of falling back to async mode, thus it should
> work in sync mode, too...
If you run them hard (e.g. raid0 striped array of several of them), they
lock up hard, as in they require a power cycle to recover. Probably that
Sparc2 can't run that seagate hard enough to crash it.
But our news server can. (4 x ST43400N striped with raid0).
-Dan
