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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: sar -d and ESDI drives
Keywords: sar
Message-ID: <1991May02.135710.7757@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 2 May 91 13:57:10 GMT
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Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991May1.153257.18685@bradley.bradley.edu> fred@bradley.bradley.edu (Fred Jaggi) writes:
]i'm trying to do performance graphs of some 6386 machines running UNIX
]System V R 3.2.2, but sar -d doesn't show me anything.  this seems to
]be the case for all the machines with ESDI drives (SCSI and IDE seem
]to work just fine).  is there any fix available for this?  

	sar -d is broke in most (all?) 386 unix's.  Seems no-one
	is able to convert the 3b2 based routines in sar for disk
	monitoring to the pc-bused controllers.  AT&T tried to
	fix it in their 3.2.3 release, but broke everything else.

	-randy

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Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us