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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 1995 14:42:56 -0500 (CDT)
From:      bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox)
To:        tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BT946C strangeness
Message-ID:  <m0s4CzA-000300C@obiwan.pmr.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950424134228.18376A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Apr 24, 95 01:45:00 pm

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Tom Samplonius wrote:
> 
> 
>   I've just got a BT946C, and decided to try it out with the latest 
> SNAP.  The weird part is that is detects it as a EISA device!  It boots 
> up and runs fine, but disk performance is very poor (about 1.5meg/s on 
> writes).

What is your read performance?  The write speed of my DSP3210S's
was about 1.5meg/sec before I enabled their write caching (the
DSP3210S defaults to not caching writes).  With the write caching
enabled I get about 4.5meg/sec (and about 4meg/sec read, though
that didn't change).  This is on a BT-747S controller.

BTW, one enables the write caching by setting a bit in mode page
8 (as I recall).  Also, for DEC drives you have to reset a bit in
mode page 2.  Email me if you would like some instructions and a
program I got from a person at DEC you can use to do this.

-- 
Bob Willcox
bob@obiwan.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net)
Austin, TX



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