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Re: SCSI and SMP not getting along.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Sun Dec 28 16:46:25 1997

To: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Dec 1997 13:05:13 PST."
             <199712282105.NAA16908@dandelion.com> 
Date: 	Sun, 28 Dec 1997 22:26:33 +0000
From: Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>

>I'd start first by building a uniprocessor kernel and get that to operate
>reliably.  Micrpolis drives have often been problematic, and I suspect the
>4743WS is no different.  Last summer I tested a borrowed Tomahawk and it could
>not even run a few minutes of my usual torture tests without requiring a power
>cycle to recover.  Very bad.  Micropolis had promised the folks at Mylex a

Out of interest, could you explain what your tests are?  I'm curious because I 
may need to do some drive testing myself.

p.




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