bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) (05/14/91)
I have a Maxtor 8760S (among other things) attached to an Adaptec 1542b.
The manual the Maxtor people sent me for the 8760 drive states that the
drive is capable of doing SYNCHRONOUS transfers. It seems that there is
no jumper on the drive for setting it that way, but instead the drive
depends on receiving an instruction (from the host adapter?) to set it
to synchronous mode.
I have set the synchronous mode jumper on the 1542b. SCSICNTL reports
the adaptec as being set that way. However, when I query the Maxtor drive,
it says "NO" next to the synchronous menu item. Note that the several
other devices on the bus don't (to the best of my knowledge) (they are
cdc wren IV, Archive Viper 2150S, Toshiba MK156FB) support sync transfers.
Is there a way to get the maxtor into sync mode? Wouldn't this drastically
improve overall performance, at least while accessing that drive?
Thanks!
Bill
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