Re: Seagate Cheetahs only async on controller

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

Julian Coleman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, SX173404LC, BD0A> disk fixed
> > sd0: 70007 MB, 14100 cyl, 24 head, 423 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 143374738
> >      sectors
> > sd0: async, 8-bit transfers, tagged queueing
>
> I have also seen this with Sun (esiop) controllers and Seagate drives with
> SX (not ST) firmware.  I've not been able to try the drives with any other
> controller.

Same issue with a 36 GB Cheetah on mac68k (Quadra 650):

[hauke@Hochschwab] ~ > uname -a
NetBSD Hochschwab 4.0_STABLE NetBSD 4.0_STABLE (FATTIE) #0: Fri May 23 
12:44:42 CEST 2008 
hf@Hochstuhl:/var/obj/netbsd-builds/4/mac68k/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/FATTIE 
mac68k
[hauke@Hochschwab] ~ > dmesg | grep sd0
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST336706LW, 010A> disk fixed
sd0: 35003 MB, 26302 cyl, 4 head, 681 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 71687370 sectors
sd0: async, 8-bit transfers, tagged queueing
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
[hauke@Hochschwab] ~ >

The disk ran fine in synchronous mode on an sbus fas(4) card.

        hauke

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