Re: Specifying Ultra-SCSI? Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB
I don't know enough about it to comment on it either. Did you add the
"aic7xxx=ultra" to 'append=' yourself though or was this done automatically?
Oliver Elphick wrote:
> 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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> Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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