Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > > > Well, at least the drive info and partition table can be read :-)
> > >
> > > Just my 2 cents, I had the same problems with a 7300 when I setup MESH
> > > to run at 10MB/s.
> > > This problem only ocurred with heavy disk-I/O and it damaged my file-system.
> > > With MESH set to 5MB/s the problem was gone.
> >
> > that is understandable since all of Apple's oldworld builtin scsi was
> > 5MB/s only.
>
> You mean the drives were only 5MB/sec?  I can believe that, but the
> MESH controller will do 10MB/sec sync.  I say that with a crack in
> my voice, because my experience with this controller is that it
> doesn't work too dang well.  With some drives it just plain can't
> handle the higher speed.  But with some drives it can.  So it's hit

Seems in this case it can't. My external disk only runs at 5 MB (of
course).

How to set MESH to 5 MB/s? I'd not object to providing a patch that makes
it a driver option, if someone can point me to the correct combinattion of
period and offset to limit the rate.

	Michael