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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 1996 18:06:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LUN support. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960105180529.11047o-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199601051945.LAA26831@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Hmmm, well, I never could get it to work, it didn't even find the second 
LUN's on the bootup BIOS sequence, let alone the kernel finding anything.

I fold, it will just be 1 big 20GB disk.

On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> >
> >I have a RAID box that can support multiple LUN's to appear as multiple 
> >RAID'd disks to the host.  Ie, with 10GB of disk after parity, I can make 
> >1 LUN look like a 5GB disk, and 5 more LUN's of 1GB each.
> 
> Look in sys/scsi to see how to create an entry for your device.  It
> should work.
> 
> >I'm on a 2940 with FreeBSD 2.1-stable.
> 
> The 2940 fully supports multiple LUNs.  You will see a large performance
> increate if you use tagged queuing since in the non-tagged case, the driver
> will only queue one transaction per target (locking out transactions based
> on the target-lun nexus was too constly down in the sequencer).  Upgrade
> to the latest -stable code and define the AHC_TAGENABLE option in your
> kernel config file.
> 
> --
> Justin T. Gibbs
> ===========================================
>   FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
> ===========================================
> 



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