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- From: hph@hphbbs.E.open.de (H.P. Heidinger, Essen)
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- Subject: Re: Coherent v4 SCSI and ST-506
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- References: <725912068.AA09684@bart.asstdc.oz.au>
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- Organization: HPHBBS-COHERENT User Conference/Germany (CUC-Ger)
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 08:13:22 +0100
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- Trev Roydhouse (trev@asstdc.oz.au) wrote:
- : > From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
-
- : > the Adaptec AH-1542 SCSI controller is the best one
- : > available today for ISA bus systems. But be warned
- : > this controller uses busmaster DMA and has problems
- : > with some motherboards. The problem is that you are losing
- : > characters on the serial lines when there is heavy disk
- : > I/O. This problem does not occur only under COHERENT,
-
- : ... under MS/PC-DOS too. However, the problem is easily solved by installing a
- : replacement UART, the NS16550AFN in place of the 8250 or 16450. Of course, VLSI
- : serial port chipsets preclude this option, although I hear there is a 16550
- : VLSI chipset now.
-
- 1) The DOS-drivers (aspi4dos.sys/aspidisk.sys) can be FULLY
- configured (Bus-On/Off-Timing, Transmission rate - chiefly).
- Thus the controller behavior can be tuned for best results.
- You wont even need FiFo-UARTS, if you change the BUS-On/Off-Timing
- to other values than the firmware-defaults of 11ys (ON-time) and 4ys
- (OFF-time).
- MWC did no initialzation on the ADAPTEC controller in the
- distributed version - but relied on the firmware-defaults, which
- makes life just HORRIBLE, since all disk-I/O disturbs all other
- system I/O.
-
- 2) A FiFo-UART does NOT cure the character-loss problem for COH'
- users - but makes it WORSE, since then complete FiFo buffers get
- trashed due to the junk-disk-driver which MWC provided to ADAPTEC
- users.
-
-
-
-
- Regards, Peter
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