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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 1998 15:23:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: very slow scsi performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980221152201.2036A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980221172142.33725@futuresouth.com>

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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Tim Tsai wrote:

> > that number depending on how the drive responds.  With the Atlas II, a
> > simplistic algorithm will cause the OS to drop down as low as 2
> > transactions if you hit the drive with the right I/O pattern (say a restore
> > from another disk).
> 
>   As somebody who has a number of Atlas II's, does anybody know if Quantum
> has a fix for this or are we stuck with it?  I do not see a firmware
> section on Quantum's website (not that I really want to do that to a
> production drive anyway).

  ftp://ftp.quantum.com/Firmware/ has some stuff.

>   More reasons to keep buying IBM's I guess.

  More reasons to keep buying Seagate Barracuda's too...

  Not that you could buy new Atlas IIs anymore.  There were replaced by
the Atlas IIIs quite a while ago.

>   Tim

Tom


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