From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 13 17:06:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA20899 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA20889 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:05:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA21580; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:34:26 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701140104.LAA21580@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre In-Reply-To: <199701131735.KAA27973@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 13, 97 10:35:27 am" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:34:25 +1030 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[