From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Oct 15 15:45:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21535 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 15:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21529 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 15:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA22902; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:45:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Kenneth D. Merry" cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange error In-Reply-To: <199810152236.QAA20556@panzer.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > 'chio status' (after a 'chio move slot 15 drive 0') > > ... > > drive 0: > > Your changer shouldn't have any effect on a removable media drive... I'm using this to verify that a media unit is loaded into the drive. > Yep, it wants to be spun up. Which is odd as auto-spinup is enabled. > > WTF does 'sks:80,2' tell me? > > It's a sense key specific error. In this case, the "0x80" part means that > the sense key specific value is valid. The "2" part is the "actual retry > count". Here's a quote from the SCSI 2 spec: > > ================= > The actual retry count field returns implementation-specific information on > the actual number of retries of the recovery algorithm used in attempting to > recover an error or exception condition. > > NOTE 88 This field should relate to the retry count fields within the > error recovery page of the MODE SELECT command. > ================= > > Did you have a disk in the drive at the time? Yep, see above. I'll pull this unit and try my spare when I get home. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message