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From: jmeissen@ogicse.ogi.edu (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New GVP Controller
Message-ID: <12430@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 22:26:24 GMT
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In article <12322@ogicse.ogi.edu> jmeissen@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (John Meissen) writes:
>HOWEVER, there is something I just can't understand. My C= controller
>used to autoconfigure and mount the 3 partitions in about 4 seconds
>(maybe less, but close enough). The GVP controller, though, takes
>=>38<= seconds to do the same thing! It sits there with the disk light
>blinking and the heads thrashing around for over half a minute!
>
>Anybody got a clue as to what's going on?

Well, thanks to all the people who responded. The correct answer turns out
to be one of the few things documented in the manual. The controller is
polling the bus for all 7 possible SCSI devices. By setting the Last LUN
option in the Prep step the problem goes away.

Why does the drive thrash around the way it does? Who knows. It's a Seagate.

-- 
John Meissen .............................. Oregon Advanced Computing Institute
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