Joi Ellis wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jonathan F. Dill wrote:
>
> >Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 15:30:47 -0500
> >From: Jonathan F. Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Marty Shannon, RHCE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Sony TSL-11000
> >
> >"Marty Shannon, RHCE" wrote:
> >> Someone will undoubtedly correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I'm pretty
> >> sure you need to enable disconnect from Adaptec's BIOS settings page
> >> (type control-A to get there).
> >
> >Thanks for the tip--I looked up the user reference for the AHA-2940U2W
> >from adaptec.com and it is indeed one of the BIOS settings. It's on by
> >default, and I doubt that I changed it, but I'll have to check.
>
> Would enabling disconnect on the scsi controller be a good thing to do
> generically?
>
> I have a similar card on my machine, perhaps I could reconfigure it
> to enhance performance over what I see now?
>
> --
> Joi Ellis
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/
I would say that, in general, if your OS supports it (all versions of
Linux in the 2.0 and 2.2 series that I know of do support it; I
*believe* SunOS supports it), it allows devices to release the SCSI bus,
so, yes. Of course, if your OS doesn't support it, you're out of luck.
I seem to recall that some drives need to be jumpered properly to enable
disconnect, as well....
Cheers,
Marty
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