From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 11 13:39:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20665 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:39:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20576; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:37:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (seabass.progroup.com [206.24.122.1]) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10726; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:36:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3300E640.ABD322C@ProGroup.com> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:36:00 -0800 From: Craig Shaver Organization: Productivity Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Esser CC: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ncr in stable ... 875 References: <199702072134.NAA29174@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <199702101012.TAA06339@madoka.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <32FF4A6C.2781E494@progroup.com> <19970211183534.ZZ52644@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> <3300BE5B.59E2B600@progroup.com> <19970211203913.GS05631@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> <3300D2D9.3F54BC7E@progroup.com> <19970211214822.TV64263@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Esser wrote: > > On Feb 11, craig@progroup.com (Craig Shaver) wrote: > > > You may of course try the Tekram driver. I'd like > > > to know how well it works for you. (If you can run > > > some benchmarks, I'd love to see the results.) > > > > I am running the Tekram now, on a 2.1.5R with the Tekram > > patches, and a minor patch from you. Would you like me > > to run bonnie on it? I have never run bonnie, but can > > give it a try. > > Well, it's only really useful, if you are willing to > run the benchmark with both drivers ... I have several machines set up here. I can set up an older asus p55tp4xe p133 64MB to bench the 2.1.7R with your driver, patch in the tekram stuff and bench that, patch your driver for ultra negotiations, and test + bench that. Please send your ultra patch if it isn't any trouble. I will be getting another 2 UW disks, and can use them to test with. It would be nice to have a big stack of disks to test the speeds from multiple UW, but .... :) Would it be helpful to test with ccd? del ... > > > I wanted to clean up some of the code before the > > > 20MHz speed is enabled, but was held back by some > > > other (higher priority) tasks ... > > > > Is it enabled by default? Will regular wide drives > > like the Q Atlas work? I want to use it with a 2G > > seagate UW, and 2 4G Atlas drives. They all work now. > > The driver will only support 10MHz WIDE transfers, > i.e. 20MB/s. I could provide you with diffs that > make the driver negotiate 20MHz speed, but have not > even tested them myself ... I will use the stock 2.1.7R driver with my server, and set the seagate uw drive to 10mhz in the tekram setup. That should be ok for now. Yes, please send the diffs. I am going to use my other machine to stage the upgrade, and then do it on the server. I can run tests and bench- marks on the test machine while I am at it. > > I have half-way completed the cleanup of the code, > that deals with negotiation values. It will use > "abstract" variables, instead of "register bits". > > Regards, STefan Good, will you back port to the 2.1.7R stable? I am a *stable* kind of guy. :) Thanks, -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088