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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Problems with Fast SCSI-II on Sun Sparc 10 (long)
- Message-ID: <37088@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:32:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.081624.764@EE.Stanford.EDU> <MRD.92Nov13160506@morsel.stdavids.picker.com> <1992Nov15.121008.12717@pt.com>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- jjg@pt.com (John Grana) writes:
- >As one who has spent the past year dealing with Fast SCSI on single ended
- >busses, all on SBus, I can offer the following:
-
- > Also, our driver performs a speed
- >reduction when it detects a sync. problem. So, the system would start at
- >10 MB/sec., then drop to 8 and maybe even 6.7 MB/sec before it would
- >stabilize.
-
- What method do you use to determine when a sync problem has occurred?
- Mismatched transfer sizes? How do you tell this is different from either
- commands which return less than requested, or people who use CAM (or the
- equivalent) and tell you the command will do more or less IO than it actually
- does?
-
- >Then we plugged the 3 line FPT board (active on the other lines) into
- >our board. Now, the system ran better, but still dropped to 8. Finally
- >we added a third party FPT/Active to the end of the SCSIbus (on the
- >last drive in the last shoebox). SPARCstation negotiated 10 MB/sec
- >AND STAYED THERE. Ran disk I/O for 2 days. All four disks stayed at
- >10 MB/sec.
-
- How expensive should a 3-line FPT be? (In parts, not neccesarily
- pre-built.) Isn't there an issue with FPT perhaps drawing too much current
- for the SCSI spec?
-
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- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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