Subject: Re: changing rates with siop(4)
To: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/16/2001 23:06:07
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:50:59PM -0600, Chris Jones wrote:
> So, I'm fighting with this raid setup I've got.  In hopes of figuring
> out why I'm getting SCSI errors, I thought I'd lower the transfer rate
> from 20MHz to 10MHz.  I went into the BIOS config program for the
> adapter, and I changed the appropriate values.  Upon rebooting, though,
> NetBSD is still running those devices at max speed.  I don't see
> anything in the siop(4), scsi(4), or sd(4) man pages that looks like
> I can change rates there.  What do I do?
> 
> This is i386, 1.5.1_ALPHA or _BETA (don't remember which).

Hum, there's no way to change this without recompiling a kernel.
You'll have to edit sys/dev/pci/siop_pci_common.c and change the entry in
siop_products[] for your board; I think you just need to change
125 to 250.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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