ESIX and RLL contollers

[Glenn Geers]

>From article <1990Nov6.234606.5162 at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>, by kaleb at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	):
> In article <1990Nov6.002853.582 at medtron.medtronic.com> dt4100c at medtron.medtronic.com (Derek Terveer) writes:
>>In article <1990Oct10.232255.25221 at metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> glenn at suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:
>>> 
>>> 	just a quick question for someone familiar with ESIX. After having a look
>>> through the installation guide for supported disk controllers I am led to 
>>> believe that it will *not* support the WD1006VSR2 RLL controller (it's not
>>> listed - they list WD1003 and WD1007). Is this correct?
>>
>>I have never been able to get rll controllers to work reliably with either rev c
>>or rev d of esix.
>>
> 
> I have *never* had a problem getting rev. c or rev. d of ESIX to work with my
> WD1006 1:1 RLL controller.

I have had no trouble over the last few weeks with my WD1006vsr2 RLL controller.
I've just added a second drive (an old - from my XT clone - 20 Mb Miniscribe)
and this is now causing the main drive to lock up. I'm going to fiddle around
by changing the interleave on the drive from 1:1 to 2:1 (and maybe 3:1 - I
just want storage!) and up the numbers of kernel buffers from 400 to 550.
I'm also going to (perhaps) run the 1k filesystem instead of the Berkley ffs.
							Glenn

glenn at qed.physics.su.oz.au


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