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Date:      Sun, 9 Mar 1997 18:10:16 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        kmitch@weenix.guru.org (Keith Mitchell)
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Micropolis 4221W and 20MB/s SYNC
Message-ID:  <199703091610.SAA25371@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199703091429.JAA00689@weenix.guru.org> from Keith Mitchell at "Mar 9, 97 09:29:07 am"

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> For some reason my Micropolis 4221W (wide scsi) drive is only getting 
> 10 MB/s sync rate instead of the 20 it is supposed to get (according to
> the drive spec).  The drive is hanging off an Adaptec 3940UW controller.
> 
> The sync rate in the setup is set to 20 and ultra is disabled (enabling it
> doesn't do anything).
> 
> I am running 2.2-GAMMA from 3/05.  Below is the verbose probe message for
> the drive.
> 
> ahc0: target 0 using 16Bit transfers
> ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0x8
> ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device
> (ahc0:0:0): "MICROP 4221-09   1128RF 28RF" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
> sd is configured at 0
> sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 1955MB (4004219 512 byte sectors)
> sd0(ahc0:0:0): with 4048 cyls, 9 heads, and an average 109 sectors/track
> 
> As you can see it uses wide transfers.  It just is operating at hakf the
> speed it should.
> 

Are you sure? The way I read it, is 16Bit (2 bytes) and 10MHz which
gives 20MB/s.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za



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