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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 1997 19:29:06 -0600
From:      dkelly@hiwaay.net
To:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Baracuda BIOS levels 
Message-ID:  <199704050129.TAA12247@nexgen.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)  of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 21:20:40 PST." <199704040520.VAA11444@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 

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>  * I have a pair of year-old ST32550W's in my freebsd box and have heard
>  * mentions of needing current BIOS to be able to handle the tagged command
>  * queueing stuff.  What BIOS version should I be up to for this?
> 
> Dunno about ST32550W's, but the ones we have:
> 
>   SEAGATE ST15150W 0023
> 
> appears to be working fine with tagged queuing.  (I.e., the system
> crashes from time to time with ahc, but it also happens without tagged 
> queuing.)
> 
> Satoshi

This works pretty good for me. Had a problem with the tape back in the 
-GAMMA days and haven't taken time to see if its fixed now or not.

ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:6
ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device
(ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST32550N 0021" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2047MB (4194058 512 byte sectors)
(ahc0:6:0): "ARCHIVE ANCDA 2750 28077 -003" type 1 removable SCSI 2
st0(ahc0:6:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x15, 512-byte blocks, 
write-protected

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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