[ On Friday, April 2, 1999 at 23:23:57 (-0700), Kenneth D. Merry wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: kern/7300: 'chio ielem' does not work well
>
> sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> sa0: <EXABYTE EXB-8500-85Qanx0 0415> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device 
> sa0: 4.032MB/s transfers (4.032MHz, offset 11)
> ch0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
> ch0: <EXABYTE EXB-10i 2.6> Removable Changer SCSI-2 device 
> ch0: 3.300MB/s transfers
> ch0: 10 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 0 portals
> 
> And it takes about 88 seconds to do a 'chio ielem':
> 
> # /usr/bin/time chio ielem
>        87.91 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys

Indeed the EXB-10e (which may actually be a 10h according to some
release notes I read the other day) takes only about 80 seconds do to an
element initialize once it's already done one.  However from its initial
state, either after power up, or after a bus reset, it seems to take at
least 120 seconds.

Obviously it isn't actually loading each tape as I feared it might.
Unfortunately I'm not normally anywhere within visual range of it, so
I've not actually watched what it does when it initializes.

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