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From: glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers)
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Subject: Re: ESIX and RLL contollers
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Date: 7 Nov 90 03:21:30 GMT
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From article <1990Nov6.234606.5162@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>, by kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	):
> In article <1990Nov6.002853.582@medtron.medtronic.com> dt4100c@medtron.medtronic.com (Derek Terveer) writes:
>>In article <1990Oct10.232255.25221@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:
>>> 
>>> 	just a quick question for someone familiar with ESIX. After having a look
>>> through the installation guide for supported disk controllers I am led to 
>>> believe that it will *not* support the WD1006VSR2 RLL controller (it's not
>>> listed - they list WD1003 and WD1007). Is this correct?
>>
>>I have never been able to get rll controllers to work reliably with either rev c
>>or rev d of esix.
>>
> 
> I have *never* had a problem getting rev. c or rev. d of ESIX to work with my
> WD1006 1:1 RLL controller.

I have had no trouble over the last few weeks with my WD1006vsr2 RLL controller.
I've just added a second drive (an old - from my XT clone - 20 Mb Miniscribe)
and this is now causing the main drive to lock up. I'm going to fiddle around
by changing the interleave on the drive from 1:1 to 2:1 (and maybe 3:1 - I
just want storage!) and up the numbers of kernel buffers from 400 to 550.
I'm also going to (perhaps) run the 1k filesystem instead of the Berkley ffs.
							Glenn

glenn@qed.physics.su.oz.au


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