Re: SCSI

From: Mike A Larson <larz_at_nospam.org>
Date: Thu Dec 23 1993 - 18:47:57 PST

Andrew Valencia <vandys@cisco.com> writes:

> It's up!

Great! Its nice to know that the driver is up and running on another
system and I haven't coded anything that's grossly dependent on
my particular hardware setup.

> It doesn't appear to be splitting I/O into 64K chunks; I'm getting
> I/O failures instead. I bet your FAT table isn't 126976 bytes, is it? :-)
> Well, my 260 meg DOS partition isn't named "FATBOY" for nothing!

The driver should be splitting I/O up into 4K chunks (cam_maxio). Is
there a 64K boundry problem on PC's that I'm not aware of?

> We need to fix that up eventually, but I'm going to change the DOS
> filesystem for now. All he does once he's running is sector I/O, so
> it seems silly to have him doing this one humongous I/O up front. Once
> he's running the only way he'll generate an I/O this big is if a whole
> bunch of your FAT was modified all at once. Not too likely.

Your right, but the driver should be able to handle large disk I/O
requests without a problem (tape I/O is another issue).

                                        Mike Larson
Received on Thu Dec 23 18:54:40 1993

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