shaff@Sesame.Stanford.EDU (Mike Shaff) (05/15/89)
ciao, I am currently using the following setup: Mac II w/ 8Mb. A/UX 1.0 Internal 80 Mb. Quatum External 80 Mb. Apple More often then is desirable I get SCSI Timeout errors on the external (Apple) drive. Is this considered normal on an A/UX system running 1.0? If it is associated with 1.0 has it been corrected for 1.1? Does anyone know a method for atleast decreasing the freq. of this annoying event? On a side question why does A/UX tell me that I have about half of my physical memory available? --
phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone) (05/16/89)
In article <9178@polya.Stanford.EDU> shaff@Sesame.Stanford.EDU (Mike Shaff) writes: >I am currently using the following setup: >Mac II w/ 8Mb. >A/UX 1.0 >Internal 80 Mb. Quatum >External 80 Mb. Apple > >More often then is desirable I get SCSI Timeout errors on the external (Apple) >drive. Is this considered normal on an A/UX system running 1.0? If it is >associated with 1.0 has it been corrected for 1.1? Does anyone know a method >for atleast decreasing the freq. of this annoying event? > >On a side question why does A/UX tell me that I have about half of my physical >memory available? >-- Since you mention Quantum specifically as the internal drive, older Quantum drives (up to drive ROM level F) do have bugs/discrepancies that can cause this kind of problem. If that is the case, only a ROM upgrade to the drive will fix it. (Only Quantum can do that) Physical memory - is it telling you have half LEFT, or only half to start with? Many full ethernet/tcp/ip/NFS configuartions along with lots of NBUFs (see kconfig(1)) will eat up 3-4MB. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Philip K. Ronzone, Apple Computer, 10440 Bubb Rd, MS 58A, Cupertino, CA 95014| |{amdahl,decwrl,sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual,unisoft,...}!apple!phil | +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | All "IMHOs" disclaimed and copyrighted. | Self defense is a human right ... | +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+