Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:51:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: scsi@freebsd.org Cc: grog@freefall.freebsd.org (Greg Lehey) Subject: Re: Setting disk sector size? Message-ID: <199607271651.SAA01784@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607271514.IAA13074@freefall.freebsd.org> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 27, 96 08:14:30 am"
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > specific, it times out). I think that the problem is that scsi tries > to access the disk before it reads the mode page. scsiformat issues a > direct scsi command, so I assume that I could issue a write command > and write it back. Well, scsiformat does nothing very magic, have a look into this shell script. But you are using the `control' device, are you? The regular (block/character) device will always touch the disk first in sd_open(). Using the control device won't get you to sd_open() at all (the open of the control device is caught in the upper layers of the SCSI driver). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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