Subject: Re: changing rates with siop(4)
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/16/2001 15:31:12
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:06:07PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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.
We should be reading the EEPROM settings.
> 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.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>