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Re: Specifying Ultra-SCSI? Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB



Christopher Barry wrote:
  >> In /etc/lilo.conf,
  >> ...
  >> # Linux - 2.0.33
  >> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.33
  >>   label=linux2033
  >>   append="mem=96m aic7xxx=ultra"
  >>
  >
  >Which specific Adaptec chipset are you using? The 7880? I have a 2940UW PCI 
      >card and I

I have the same card.

  >never bothered to enter any settings related to it in lilo.conf because duri
      >ng bootup
  >I get messages about it being set to 20MHz in Wide 16-bit mode, so I'm getti
      >ng UW mode
  >automatically. Does that setting make the SCSI part of the bootup faster? Th
      >e SCSI
  >part is the only part of my bootup that isn't lightening fast right now. I'v
      >e thought
  >of playing with the kernel compile option to lower the wait count from 5 sec
      >onds, but
  >thought maybe that's not such a hot idea.

I don't know enough about the SCSI drivers to comment on this.

This is what I get in /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0; do you think I can do better?:

Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 4.1/3.2
Compile Options:
  AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY    : 15
  AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Disabled
  AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE    : Disabled
  AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS     : Enabled

Adapter Configuration:
           SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
                         (AIC-788x chipset)
               Host Bus: Wide
                Base IO: 0xec00
         Base IO Memory: 0xffafb000
                    IRQ: 10
                   SCBs: Used 4, HW 16, Page 16
             Interrupts: 81391
          Serial EEPROM: True
   Extended Translation: Enabled
         SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
             Ultra SCSI: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff

Statistics:
CHAN#A (TGT 0 LUN 0):
nxfers 41388 (38837 read;2551 written)
blks(512) rd=491364; blks(512) wr=9810
        < 512 512-1K   1-2K   2-4K   4-8K  8-16K 16-32K 32-64K 64-128K >128K
 Reads:     1      0  29410    572   1845   2824    872   3307      6      0 
Writes:     0      0   2075    203     14    259      0      0      0      0 

CHAN#A (TGT 1 LUN 0):
nxfers 30 (30 read;0 written)
blks(512) rd=24; blks(512) wr=0
        < 512 512-1K   1-2K   2-4K   4-8K  8-16K 16-32K 32-64K 64-128K >128K
 Reads:     6     24      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0 
Writes:     0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0 

CHAN#A (TGT 6 LUN 0):
nxfers 39895 (37691 read;2204 written)
blks(512) rd=641846; blks(512) wr=24234
        < 512 512-1K   1-2K   2-4K   4-8K  8-16K 16-32K 32-64K 64-128K >128K
 Reads:     1      0  27357    327   1217   2587   1375   4822      5      0 
Writes:     0      0   1393    164     88     15    544      0      0      0 


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