> > > > 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