From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 12 03:50:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA13802 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 03:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA13790 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 03:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA16693 for scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 12:50:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA09594; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 12:29:11 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971012122910.ZX36246@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 12:29:10 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with dump on ncr References: <19971011091605.32335@mi.uni-koeln.de> <199710120615.AAA18578@pluto.plutotech.com> <19971012094426.47163@mi.uni-koeln.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19971012094426.47163@mi.uni-koeln.de>; from Stefan Esser on Oct 12, 1997 09:44:26 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stefan Esser wrote: > Well, I guess it is save to just exclude those > ASCQ values for ASC 0x04 that indicate a simple > motor start command is not sufficient (0x04/0x03 > surely does not ask for a START STOP UNIT command :) Hmm, but it can't hurt to attempt a START STOP UNIT for any NOT READY, as long as you: . make sure you'll abort after a number of failed retries for the original command, . make sure to immediately abort after getting a nested NOT READY. -- 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. ;-)