Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > > 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.
It's been a config option since ages.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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