[4163] in linux-scsi channel archive

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Ultra Wide (aic-7880) only 20Mbyte/sec?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cristian Nicolae)
Thu Jun 18 10:35:42 1998

Date: 	Thu, 18 Jun 1998 17:27:36 +0300
From: Cristian Nicolae <cristi@cepes.ro>
Reply-To: cristi@cepes.ro
To: Michael Lausch <mla@gams.co.at>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu

Michael Lausch wrote:
> 
> I'm running 2.1.105 with the 5.0.18 driver.
> 
> lilo.conf says
> append "aic7xxx=ultra,verbose"
> 
> boot output:
> 
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 6/0
> (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) BIOS enabled, IO Port 0xd000, IRQ 9
> (scsi0) IO Memory at 0xe3000000, MMAP Memory at 0xc480a000
> (scsi0) Resetting channel
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.0.18/3.2.4
>        <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
> scsi : 1 host.
> (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Allocating initial 30 SCB structures.
> (scsi0:0:0:0) Using wide (16 bit) transfers.
> (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 8.
>   Vendor: IBM       Model: DCAS-34330W       Rev: S65A
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> As far as i know, drives with ultra/wide SCSI interface should do 40
> MByte/sec. So why is this disk running at 20Mbyte/sec? The Controller
> BIOS is set up to do 40 MByte/sec on SCSI id 0. The disk shoudl do
> ultra SCSI according to IBM's web pages.
> 
Maybe that's a stupid question but how did you figure out that disk is
running at 20Mbyte/sec 
In the log the bus frequence is 20 Mhz not 20 MByte. Do I miss
something ?

Cristian

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post