More ASUS P2B-DS Woes

[Russell Brown]

Quoth Doug Ledford.....
>
>Russell Brown wrote:
>> 
>> For the record, I've just tried running the DAT Tape in sync mode with
>> ASUS bios 1008 and aic7xxx 5.1.12
>> Result: SCSI timeouts :-(
>> Ho Hum - back to async for the DAT.
>
>Note that for some Seagate SCSI tape drives, if you call tech support with a
>problem under any OS the first thing they make you do is disable sync support
>on the tape device.  I know of a few others that are like that also.  There
>appears to be a small trend that a few models of tape drive simply don't work
>well in sync mode.

FWIW, these are Sony SDT-9000 DAT's.

Sony SDT-5200's seem to work fine and SDT-9000's work for us on other
machines with DPT controllers.

Running async adds around 10% to the tape I/O times so that aspect's not
earth shattering....  more concerning is that sommat is flaky and might
bite under some other circumstances.  Anything I can do to help track
this down?

-- 
 Regards,
     Russell
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