From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 4 17:49:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA21710 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:49:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21680 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:49:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA12920 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 02:49:42 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA05225 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 02:49:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id CAA02662 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 02:30:52 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602050130.CAA02662@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problem with new drive (Connor CFP1060S 1.05GD 243F) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 02:30:51 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602042103.QAA12434@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Feb 4, 96 04:03:28 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Dufault wrote: > It looks like Joerg is closer than me on this one. It managed to format > the drive fine yet sometimes spins down when fully closed? > > I don't suppose the "allow removal" in the driver is causing this think to > spin down? I appears the "start unit" is getting it to spin up again. I still believe this is a hardware problem, not software. If the drive would support automatic powerdown, it could respond with ``Logical unit is in the process of becoming ready'', and the normal retries should suffice. ``Not ready'' usually means the drive doesn't even think about turning up again. -- 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. ;-)