Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:34:25 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre Message-ID: <199701140104.LAA21580@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199701131735.KAA27973@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 13, 97 10:35:27 am"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > Actually, Terry is lying. Those boot messages come from a Jaz with no disk > > inserted. Here's a Jaz with a disk in : > > Actually, J"org and I have collapsed two message threads into a > single thread, seperated only by context. We did the same thing > with the su/getusershell threads, too. Actually, I was commenting specifically on your message where you quoted a probe message with the Jaz saying "no disk here, bub", and then insisted that there was a disk in and spun up. > > Correct; if the drive is mounted, it will have been locked. There's no > > way for a locked drive to singal its desire to be unlocked. > > How about "power cycling rapidly until someone notices the noise"? I can put on my firmware-author hat and say that I'd really like to set the CC bit and report a vendor specific status that's only documented in the source with the comment "mum, I need a wee". But I suspect that someone would hit me with a copy of the SCSI-3 spec, which is a good competitor with the elisp manual for smiting the heathens. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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