From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Oct 5 11:37:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01397 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 11:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01168 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 11:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA24607; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 20:36:09 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA24747; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 20:36:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA01371; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 20:35:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610051835.UAA01371@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: verbose but cryptic error To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 20:35:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610051824.LAA29950@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Oct 5, 96 11:24:10 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > I think the fundemental flaw in scsi(8) here is that it should do a > mode since on page 2 to check what bits are setable and use that as > a mask to the mode select. It does. As you can also guess from Jeff's description. ;-) (Changing the `reserved' in scsi_modes made the field being displayed, but it `magically' disappeared in the mode page editor.) It seems that this drive expects something else than the default value for a field that it's not editable at all. Weird. -- 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. ;-)