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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Maxtor disks & DEC5000
Keywords: Help
Message-ID: <1311@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 15 Oct 90 19:00:11 GMT
References: <768@inesc.UUCP> <2714CFCC.8088@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <2714CFCC.8088@orion.oac.uci.edu> Mike Iglesias <iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu> writes:
>You may need to turn on the readahead cache on the disk - we got some
>Maxtor XT8380s drives that had it turned off.  You can do it with
>the rzdisk program:
>
>  # rzdisk -c ask /dev/rrz0a
>
Another problem is that the generic configuration doesn't use synchronous
transfers on the SCSI bus for unknown devices. You have to change
the scsi_data.c file (in /sys/data/) to inform the kernel about the drives
capabilties.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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