timeouts on AIC7890

[Dirk Lutzebaeck]

Russell Brown writes:
 > As I said earlier, setting the DAT to Async seems to alleviate most, if
 > not all, of the timeout problems with our P2B-DS based systems.
 > 
 > It does also seem to depend on the exact make and model of DAT - Running
 > them Sync; Sony SDT9000's fail most of the time whereas SDT-5000's
 > mostly work.

I had no luck setting my SEAGATE STD28000N DDS2 drive to async. In
fact Seagate does not recommend it. There were some discussions on
this on the list some months ago. But anyhow this doesn't clear up
where the real problem lies. Do the tape manufacturers make such a bad 
firmware or is it ASUS? Using async might also reduce your tranfer
rate to 5-7 MB/s.

Dirk


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