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David Engel (david@ods.com) wrote:

// Is anyone out there using a Buslogic 946c (or any other model) SCSI
// controller with a Micropolis 4110 disk drive under Linux?  If so,
// please get in touch with me.

I just bought a BusLogic 956C and works fine with my Micropolis 4110...
although my drive is starting to have problems spinning up if I power
down.... but that's another story ...icky... 


// I've started seeing disk drive timeouts since upgrading to the newer,
// higher-performance, Buslogic driver.  These timeouts always occur when
// accessing the tape drive (a Sony SDT-5000), occasionally occur when
// accessing the CD-ROM (a Plextor 3028) and occur every once in a while
// only accessing the disk.

// The author of the Buslogic driver for Linux, Leonard Zubkoff, has been
// very cooperative in trying to diagnose the problem but suspects that
// it is due to a faulty tagged-queuing implementation in the disk
// firmware.  The problem goes away when the tagged-queuing option in the
// Buslogic driver is disabled.  I'd rather not do that all the time
// since it has a significant impact on performance.  So far, Micropolis
// technical support has not shown any interest in pursuing the problem.
// I'm hoping they'll show more interest if I can find others who are
// seeing it also.

// David
// -- 
// David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
// david@ods.com                      1101 E. Arapaho Road
// (214) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081

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