Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:23:30 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: SDS <gladiatr@sunflower.com>, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no active SCB; BUS DEVICE RESET Message-ID: <199904031823.KAA01200@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:18:47 PST." <199904031818.KAA01166@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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In message <199904031818.KAA01166@cwsys.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD
Open Sy
stems Group writes:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904031036020.311-100000@madeline.boneyard.law
> rence.k
> s.us>, SDS writes:
> > On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote:
> >
> > > da0: <MICROP 3243-19 1128RA 28RA> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> > > da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> > > Enabled
> > > da0: 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 522C)
> > >
> >
> > Patrick,
> >
> > Yup. Gotta love it. Feel ripped off yet? I had a Micropolis 2 GB drive
> > that had the same problem. It's the firmware. And there's nothing that
> > can be done as Micropolis is no longer (as you undoubtedly know). This
> > problem is not OS or architecture specific. I tried the damned thing in a
> > SPARC, with different SCSI controllers, a Windows 95 machine (!!!) and
> > finally ended up dumping it in an old 286 w/ an old ISA controller
> > running DOS (and it will still periodically crash). At least FreeBSD offer
> s
> > some diagnostic messages (the others would just lock up)
> >
> > It seems that this drive cannot handle dis/reconnects properly. I fought
> > with my drive for 2 years. Save your strength...
>
> Wouldn't disabling disconnects in the controller setup?
Let's try this again....
Wouldn't disabling disconnects in the controller setup work?
(That's what I get for listening to my wife while responding to email).
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