Well, then that's quite a few factors that will give you sub-par SSA performance. I'd like to address one factor I haven't seen hit on yet: your RAID setup: This is of course affected by your environ
Author: "Matthew A. Bacchi" <mbacchi AT BTV.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:57:44 -0500
Carl, I wonder about this comment for two reasons. First, I have 7133 D40 drawers which don't appear to be problematic. But a month or so ago we rebuilt a server and found that "Enable Fast-Write Cac
Matt, I have an even older 7133 D40 attached to a server and rather than have Fast Write enabled (slightly different syntax between machines), it has FL_UNAVAIL (fast load unavailable). Any idea what
Author: Carl Makin <carl AT XENA.IPAUSTRALIA.GOV DOT AU>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:44:04 +1100
Hi Matthew, I do think our D40 drawer (5 x 36gb disks) was setup poorly. I've been over the hardware config with our IBM engineer and he thinks it's probably not running at the full loop speed (SSA16
Author: "Matthew A. Bacchi" <mbacchi AT BTV.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:30:42 -0500
George, I'm not really sure what the difference is, I'm guessing that the SSA controller needs to support Fast-Write Cache, and I believe it's a chip on the controller with memory(cache) for doing th