2.04 FFS vs. 1.3 FFS
03-Jan-92 23:36:44
Sb: #18309-2.04 FFS vs. 1.3 FFS
Fm: Charles Figueiredo 74040,1141
To: Andy Finkel 70007,4173
Can you give me the straight dope on Reselection.
First does the reselection status of the boot disk over ride the
reslection status of other HD's on the bus? If the boot disk has
reselection on do all the other devices "have reselection on" no
matter what HDTOOLBOX says about the reselection status of these
other drives? This is what I've heard from a number of sources.
Does setting the reselection status of any or all bus devices slow
down things appreciably? If so what are the benefits to having
reselection turned on?
Can you suggest what the reselection status of each of the devices on
my SCSI bus should be? I have the following configuration.
A3000T with 18Meg RAM 200M Connor SCSI drive (This is the boot disk
and reselection is currently on) 44M Syquest drive (Reselection is
currently off on all my cartridges) Archive Viper Tape drive
Finally, does one have to reformat media under 2.04 if the FFS can be
installed without mucking up the drive's contents? I have installed
the new FFS on all my Syquest cartridges formatted under 1.3 but have
not reformatted them using the 2.04 format command.
Many thanks in advance for your assist. Regards Charles