From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Jun 9 06:07:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA09216 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 06:07:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA09182 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 06:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by Sisyphos id AA29281 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for scsi@freebsd.org); Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:06:57 +0200 Message-Id: <199606091306.AA29281@Sisyphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:06:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: Michael Beckmann "Fast SCSI-2 = 6 MB/sec ?" (Jun 8, 16:39) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Michael Beckmann Subject: Re: Fast SCSI-2 = 6 MB/sec ? Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Jun 8, 16:39, Michael Beckmann wrote: } Subject: Fast SCSI-2 = 6 MB/sec ? } I have just installed a Plextor SCSI CD ROM drive in my machine. I had to } find out that it supports only 6 MB/sec. Here is the output from dmesg: } (ncr0:0:0): 200ns (5 Mb/sec) offset 8. } (ncr0:0:0): "IBM OEM DFHSS4F 4141" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 } sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. } (ncr0:2:0): 200ns (5 Mb/sec) offset 8. } (ncr0:2:0): "IBM OEM 0662S12 2 23" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 } sd1(ncr0:2:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. } (ncr0:3:0): "PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-4XCE 1.01" type 5 removable SCSI 2 } cd0(ncr0:3:0): FAST SCSI-2 175ns (6 Mb/sec) offset 8. } ^^^^^^^^^^ } cd0(ncr0:3:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present } (ncr0:5:0): "HP C1533A 9503" type 1 removable SCSI 2 } st0(ncr0:5:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. } density code 0x13, variable blocks, write-enabled } I know that the CD ROM drive can never deliver a throughput of 6 MB/sec, } (actually, it should deliver around 680 kByte/sec.) but I wonder } if the CD ROM drive decreases the performance of the entire bus, thus } limiting the bus throughput to 6 MB/sec. Am I right ? Should I be } concerned about this and replace the CD drive ? } I wonder if my bus is running at 10 MByte/sec at all, because the hard } drives report both 5 MB/sec and 10 MB/sec. You don't need to worry, SCSI allows to talk to each device with its individual maximum speed. And the 6MB/s are quite impressive for a CDROM. They mean, that reading at 600KB/s will only need 10% of the available SCSI bus capacity, leaving 90% for the hard disk drives and the tape. The IBM disk drives have unique firmware features, which can cause problems at times. But the fact, that they first negotiate for 5MHz transfers when they actually are capable of 10MHz does no harm. (Well, it is an interaction with some code in the driver, which is intended towork around with other drive's bugs ... :) Anyway, all your drives are working with their maximum supported SCSI transfer rate. No reason to be worried ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se