Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:11:36 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, costa@inner.cortx.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sd0 timed out while idle Message-ID: <19970709191136.54842@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970707154705.16975G-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom Samplonius on Mon, Jul 07, 1997 at 03:49:57PM -0700 References: <19970707214908.44376@mi.uni-koeln.de> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970707154705.16975G-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Jul 7, Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Stefan Esser wrote: > > The "NCR controllers" ??? > > They don't exist ... :) > > Sure do. Symbios has come down to my place and re-labeled my controlor, > and until they do, it will remain a NCR810. No, what I meant was, that NCR SCSI cards (the name I use myself for all NCR/Symbios 53c8xx based cards) are not that similar, if you look at them in sufficient detail ... Sure, there are the original NCR brand cards, but they are only a small fraction of all "NCR SCSI" cards installed. (I guess most are from ASUS, with NCR/Symbios second, and companies using the 53c875 for their high end (and other vendors' chips for non-Ultra cards) like Tekram following.) > > In fact, there are several independently developed BIOS > > versions offered with the various brands of NCR chip, > > and even my (2.5 year old) ASUS SP3G lets you specify > > an additional power on delay ... > > I have a ASUS 3P3G too, and had to lengthen the delay for the 4 drives > I put on the internal SCSI bus. Yes, my point was that this is possible by choosing the appropriate delay in the BIOS ... > > > Quatum drives are known to go on a holiday after some continuous use. > > > Grand Prix drives are particularly bad. In fact, I think the Atlas is the > > > only respectible Quantum drive. > > > > How about the quality of the Atlas II and the Viking ? > > I don't really understand, why they offer two 7200RPM > > drives, again. Reminds me of the Atlas/Grand Prix ... > > The writing is on the wall for the Atlas II, now that the Atlas III is > available. I've seen the specs of the Atlas III, and they look very convincing (near Cheetah performance at 7200RPM and thus less noisy and running cooler), but I thought they were only available much later. Can you really buy an Atlas III today ??? Regards, STefan
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