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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:25:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI speed with SLR100 tape drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103112024370.52110-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103120325.KAA09448@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Olivier Nicole wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I finally got that SLR100 tape drive I wanted. It si supposed to
> support SCSI 160, but anyway the machine I have only supports 80Mb.
> 
> The problem is the following:
> 
> - at boot time, going to the Symbios bios, the tape is given at
>   maximum speed, 80 Mb
> 
> - once FreeBSD is started, it only supports half the speed:
>   sa0 at sym1 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
>   sa0: <TANDBERG SLR100 0402> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device 
>   sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
> 
> Any idea on the reason why?

It's not 'half the speed'. Please go read some SCSI FAQs somewhere.

> 
> Eventually, I had to modify /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_sa.c to remove
> the leading blank from the model name in the quirk table.


> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
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