UW2 cards don't like to run at UW2?

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:15:04AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> > Can't say why you are experiencing this -- but I can say that LSI LVD
> > (80M/s) cards work in a 164LX.  I have a Tekram-290U2W in one and I get
> > proper speeds.
> > 
> > -- 
> > -- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
> 
> Hrm, interesting. Your 290U2W uses the 896 chipset?

895 -- the 896 is mostly just two 895's on the same silicon.

 
> da0 at sym1 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
> da0: <SEAGATE ST318203LW 0002> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 17366MB (35566480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C)

You've checked termination, cables, etc..?  I wonder if there is
something in your card's option ROM that isn't getting set on the Alpha
vs. i386.

Maybe try just one drive at a time?

> I really don't know what is going on. :(  Would an 895-based U2W card
> have better luck?

I doubt it -- as a general rule.  But, maybe a different card would work
better?
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)