From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 1 14: 6:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74EA37B403 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:06:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fA1M67rg030904; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:06:08 +0100 (CET) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA1M67116092; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:06:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:06:07 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Bernd Walter Cc: Andrew Gallatin , DAVE CUSHING , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 400 Message-ID: <20011101230607.A16075@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <01Nov1.133922est.119057@charon.cambrianc.on.ca> <15329.39897.847099.976000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011101200836.A15233@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20011101225353.B9563@cicely8.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011101225353.B9563@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:53:53PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:53:53PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:08:36PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Some older DEC disks don't spin up automatically. I can't remember if > > > we send start-unit command to spin them up or not. If we don't, that > > > might explain things. > > > > SRM does on SHOW DEVICE. I'm pretty sure the SCSI/CAM layer sends > > a spinup as well. > > It does. > Most of my drives a configured not to spin up themself. > > But this one is broken: > > It doesn't tell the right reason for not being ready so CAM don't > send a start command. RZ55 is a pretty ancient rebranded 300MB Micropolis drive. I *think* it is not fully ANSI SCSI-standard compliant. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message