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- From: mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386bsd] Queries for the new scsi driver.
- Message-ID: <3813@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 09:48:59 GMT
- Sender: news@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Organization: Hokkaido Univ. However I am subject to tansei for JUNET.
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- Subject: [386bsd] Queries for the new scsi driver.
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- I tried the Julian new scsi driver.
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- However, before I use the aha1542 specific new-scsi driver,
- I was able to use two partition on one disk drive for the swap like:
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- config "386bsd" root on as0 swap on as0b and as0e
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- And both as0b and as0e were working fine even they are on the identical drive.
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- After I put the new scsi driver,
- in the configuration file for the kernel,
- I removed many unused drivers to save the kernel size
- by commenting out like:
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- #options NFS
- #disk wd1 at wd0 drive 1
- #device we0 at isa ....
- #device ne0 at isa ..
- #device ec0 at isa ..
- #device is0 at isa ..
- #pseudo-device ddb
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- for the swap partition I made the line like:
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- config "386bsd" root on sd0 swap on sd0b and sd0e
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- My current problem with this julian new scsi driver system is,
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- the kernel built does not add the partition sd0e for the swap area.
- The "swapon /dev/sd0e" makes error message saying that
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- adding swap: failed! (unchanged)
- swapon: /dev/sd0e Device not configured
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- Note, I have the line in the file /etc/fstab like:
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- /dev/sd0e - swap sw - -
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- This kind of trouble never happened when I used the old scsi driver.
- What is the reason that I cannot assign /dev/sd0e for swap ?
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- You might think that I should not use two swap reagion on one drive,
- however I have a good reason for that.
- Sometimes, I just use /dev/sd0b of size 50MB for the swap, and
- /dev/sd0e of size 1.0GB for the file system by using newfs
- to work with many files.
- And sometimes I would like to use both /dev/sd0b and /dev/sd0e to
- enable the large virtual memory as large as a giga bytes.
- (However I find many trouble to extend the virtual memory of that
- size or a few hundred meg, I still making struggle for that.)
-
- BTW.
- What is the advantage of the new scsi driver
- compared the old scsi drivers ?
- Was the old scsi driver not using DMA transfer
- but program data transfer?
- It seems the data transfer rate measured by the dd command
- /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/rsd0h of=/dev/null ibs=512x88
- did not speed up compared with that of old scsi driver.
- (comparision is made with only one swap partition system.
- rsd0h is about 300MB large to reduce the effect of the caching.)
- The jumper of the adaptec 1542b card is to use the syncronos
- negotiation mode.
- CPU is 486DX 33MHz, AMI bios 256K cache 16MB Dram,
- IDA card + adaptec 1542B.
- The scsi disk is Fujitsu's 1.6GB, 11mS, 10MB/Sec peak, SCSI-2 disk.
- It has 512bytes/sector, 88 sectors/track, and 90 rotation/sec means,
- it the data transfer is made ideally, its sustained transfer rate
- is about 4MB/sec, but dd give the number around 1MB/sec.
- (Is 1:1 interleave degrades the performance of the disk?
- When I purchased the disk, the disk was formatted for MAC,
- and I do not know what is the current interleave factor of
- the disk now. )
-
- PS.
- What is the meaning of the message given at the boot time by the
- new scsi driver;
-
- aha0 reading board settings, 150 nSEC ok, use 200 nSEC
- ** aha0 probing for scsi devices **
- dev0,lu0: type 0(direct),fixed 'FUJITSU M2652S-512 008P' scsi2
- sd0: 1651MB, cyls 1944, heads 20, secs 87, bytes/sec 512
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- Why it drops from 150 nS to 200nS (and what is the meaning of 150nS)?
- Does this relate to the disk trasfer rate?
-
- Hiroshi Murakami
- mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- hiroshi@teine.chem2.hokudai.ac.jp
-
- PS2.
- What is the virtue of ddb ?
- Sorry for the buggy English.
-