Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 17:42:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WORM drive under 2.2 Message-ID: <199705100042.RAA00626@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19970509220557.WZ16385@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "May 9, 97 10:05:57 pm"
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> > There is a bug somewhere with the 6020i's so that you have to eject them > > between sessions. > > The HP6020i (and quite an incident, the Philips CDD2660 that > incidentally appeared around the same time :) react allergically > against the START STOP UNIT (start = 0, i.e. stop) command given in > the default wormclose() handling. After this, they require an > explicit START STOP UNIT (start = 1). The 4020i/CDD2000 didn't bother > about this. > > I think stopping the drive inside wormclose() should go away; that's > the reason for why i didn't commit the previously posted patch yet. Interesting.. in any case, the previous patch seems to work. Or work better at least (I haven't actually tried to write a disk yet). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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