Subject: help on choosing a SCSI card
To: NetBSD/sparc64 <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Joel CARNAT <jcarnat@altran.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 05/06/2005 10:14:50
Hi,

Now that my U5 is up and working OK for 15 days (with 2.0.2), I wanted
to swap the IDE disk to an SCSI one. I have two differents cards :
- esiop0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c875 (ultra-wide scsi)
- isp0 at pci3 dev 4 function 0: QLogic 1020 Fast Wide SCSI HBA

Both seem quite old and I just can't find docs about their specs, neither
on Google, nor on docs.sun.com :( All I know is that the QLogic also has
an ethernet port.

Here's all I got from dmesg/pcictl :
####################################
003:00:0: Sun Microsystems, Inc. PCIO Ebus2 (miscellaneous bridge, revision 0x01)
003:00:1: Sun Microsystems, Inc. PCIO Happy Meal Ethernet (ethernet network, revision 0x01)
003:04:0: Q Logic ISP1020 (SCSI mass storage, revision 0x05)

hme1 at pci3 dev 0 function 1: Sun Happy Meal Ethernet, rev. 1
hme1: interrupting at ivec 3011
hme1: Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
nsphy1 at hme1 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
nsphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
isp0 at pci3 dev 4 function 0: QLogic 1020 Fast Wide SCSI HBA
isp0: interrupting at ivec 1810
isp0: invalid NVRAM header
scsibus0 at isp0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
####################################
002:01:0: Symbios Logic 53c875/876 (SCSI mass storage, revision 0x26)

esiop0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c875 (ultra-wide scsi)
esiop0: using on-board RAM
esiop0: interrupting at ivec 10
scsibus0 at esiop0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
####################################

I will use on of the following disk :
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST318406LW, 0109> disk fixed
sd0: 17501 MB, 26302 cyl, 2 head, 681 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 35843670 sectors
sd0: sync (12.50ns offset 63), 16-bit (160.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <QUANTUM, ATLAS10K3_36_WLS, 020W> disk fixed
sd1: 35074 MB, 31022 cyl, 4 head, 578 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 71833096 sectors
sd1: sync (12.50ns offset 127), 16-bit (160.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing

So I would like to know which of the two cards has the quickest/better
SCSI chip... Then I could decide if I use the HME on the SCSI/HME card
or use the other SCSI card and plug an Ethernet Quad card.

TIA,
	Jo
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