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 > > -- > Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 > ======================================== > "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only > begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should > not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
