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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:04:05 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N
Message-ID:  <199902220404.VAA22794@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902220339.TAA07493@imo.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us> from Dennis Glatting at "Feb 21, 1999  7:39:42 pm"

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Dennis Glatting wrote...
> 
> > > On the ST410800W I am getting, according to iozone:
> >
> > FWIW, several people have reported bad performance with that
> > drive when tagged queueing is enabled.  Their firmware
> > revisions, however, were 71xx, not 45xx.  Apparantly drives
> > with firmware that starts with 00 work okay.
> >
> 
> I have contacted Seagate. Seagate's technical support staff
> says Seagate doesn't do firmware upgrades, rather I have to
> locate a vendor with disks having the revision level I seek and
> purchase a new disk.

That's pretty lame.

> What is the source for firmware upgrades?

I don't know, I've never upgraded the firmware on a Seagate disk.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com


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