From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Mar 1 5: 2:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07F337BCE7; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 05:02:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: from earth.fxp (oca-p2-65.hitter.net [207.192.76.65]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DAE69B19; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:02:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:02:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@earth.fxp To: Mike Smith Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chio trap with not-ready changer In-Reply-To: <200003010502.VAA02846@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Ok, after some interesting side trips I'm happily up and talking to our > new (well, new-old) SpectraLogic STL-8000. There's only one catch so far > - if the unit is still initialising itself when the 'ch' driver tries to > talk to it, the latter fails in a messy fashion. It's easy enough to > work around this by increasing the SCSI delay, but if you have 40 tapes > in the unit and it's busy reading the barcodes off them all, this can be > a loooong wait. 8) > I used to service/support these beasts (as a VAR) and have found that they will cause various OS's (NT/Netware/SCO) to hang if you don't let them fully initialize before booting...very poor firmware design. Unfortunately, we never found a reasonable work-around other than to wait. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message