Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:47:52 -0500 (EST) | From | "Simon's Mailing List Account" <> | Subject | Re: 3940UW Driver Locks the Machine |
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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Topi Miettinen wrote:
> Doug Ledford writes: > > Especially when you consider that without the code, the driver went into an > > abort/reset loop continually resetting the drive because it was failing on > > tagged commands. The drives in question were IBM DFS series drives shipped > > by Sun and Apple. > > Sounds familiar (abort/reset loop with IBM DPES & DFHS). We've fixed a lot > of problems by disabling tagged queuing and disconnection. I really, really > hate 'aborting command due to timeout blah blah'. Can anyone recommend a > hard drive manufacturer which sells 100% OK drives?
I've *never* seen this sort of problem with the recent Fujitsu SCSI drives. They aren't particularly cheap, but they're extremely fast. (4.4,9,18 avail in 7200rpm, 4.4 and 9 in 10000rpm) (this is on Linux/Intel and Irix/SGI)
Send me e-mail if you want me to recommend a source or two.
Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
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