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- From: jeff@hobbes.contex.com (Jeff Carey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: SCSI disconnect or lack thereof in kernel/devices
- Message-ID: <2935@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 20:31:12 GMT
- Sender: news@contex.contex.com
- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- We have a SCSI device attached to a SGI PI25 running IRIX 4.0.5A that I know
- does not support SCSI disconnect.
- The kernel, in particular /usr/sysgen/master.d/scsi, has not been changed.
- There is a line in there that currently reads:
- int scsi_enable_disconnect[SC_MAXADAP] = {1,1,1,1};
-
- The device seems to work, and just as importantly, the whole system seems
- to work just fine while using the non-disconnecting device. Obviously,
- the SCSI bus is locked down when said device is being accessed.
-
- My questions are:
- 1. Is it necessary for some as-yet unrecognized reason to disable disconnect
- on the host adapter with said device?
- 2. Is it beneficial (integrity, speed, dependability-wise) to disable
- disconnect on the host adapter?
- 3. Should I expect similar success(/failure) rates on other machines, such
- as PI35s, Indigos, Crimsons (with their two host adapters), etc? (I can
- not imagine graphics options 8-bit, Elan, etc. would have any affect.)
-
- Could someone (Dave) expound on the usage and potential advantages of the
- scsi_enable_disconnect variable beyond what the comments in the
- /usr/sysgen/master.d/scsi file and the last note in the dks(7M) man page
- say when using non-disconnecting devices.
-
- Thanks for all your help,
-
- -jeff
-
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- Jeff Carey
- jeff@contex.com (or: contex!jeff@uunet.uu.net)
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