Re: scsi tuning

2002-04-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 21 Apr, this message from John Schmidt echoed through cyberspace: > > On Sunday 21 April 2002 08:36 am, John Schmidt wrote: > >> I have a Power Tower Pro with a G3/466 card running with scsi drives. I am > >> running woody with kernel 2.2.20. The d

Re: scsi tuning

2002-04-21 Thread Michel Lanners
On 21 Apr, this message from John Schmidt echoed through cyberspace: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 08:36 am, John Schmidt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a Power Tower Pro with a G3/466 card running with scsi drives. I am >> running woody with kernel 2.2.20. The drive is hooked up to the internal >> scsc

Re: scsi tuning

2002-04-21 Thread Francois Taiani
Hi John, I'm not sure this will be of any help to you, but did you try more recent versions of the kernel, to see if it would do any difference ? (I'm using 2.4.18, and it happens to be as reliable as 2.2.x on my G3 White & Blue.) I also dimly remember a kernel config option to improve I/O la

Re: scsi tuning

2002-04-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 21 April 2002 08:36 am, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Power Tower Pro with a G3/466 card running with scsi drives. I am > running woody with kernel 2.2.20. The drive is hooked up to the internal > scsci bus which supposedly can do 10MB/sec transfers (I think I got the > right s

scsi tuning

2002-04-21 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have a Power Tower Pro with a G3/466 card running with scsi drives. I am running woody with kernel 2.2.20. The drive is hooked up to the internal scsci bus which supposedly can do 10MB/sec transfers (I think I got the right specs; I do know that the external bus is half the speed of the