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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:33:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Cc:        dufault@hda.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: i386/369: (AHA1542A problems)
Message-ID:  <199504281633.JAA06347@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950428075610.351A-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> from "Marc Ramirez" at Apr 28, 95 08:08:01 am

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> On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > > automatic Request Sense	disabled	(???)
> > 
> > If you indeed to have a jumper installed on J6 pin pair 5, please remove
> > it, that is the default setting for an aha154X card.
> 
> I'm sorry; it is enabled, which is the default, as you have just said.

Okay, good.  That was the only thing I saw that may have caused you
problems.

> Another thing, let me show you the probe messages for my disks under 2.0R:
> 
> aha0: reading board settings, dma=5 int=11  (bus speed defaulted)
> aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
> aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> aha0 targ 0 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI2
> aha0 targ 0 lun 0: <CONNER  CFA540S         090?>
> sd0: 515MB (1056708 total sec), 2800 cyl, 4 head, 94 sec, bytes/sec 512
> aha0 targ 1 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI1
> aha0 targ 1 lun 0: <MAXTOR  7120SCS         3330>
> sd1: 121MB (248502 total sec), 1498 cyl, 4 head, 41 sec, bytes/sec 512
> 
> There doesn't happen to be a problem that I'm unaware of with mixing SCSI 
> disk types, does there?

Not that I know of.  Been doing it for years.  It may not be optimal use
of a SCSI bus, but with these small drives I don't think your going to
fill the bandwidth up.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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