Date: Sat, 20 Sep 97 19:27:19 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: cracauer@cons.org Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, cracauer@cons.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-stable problems Message-ID: <9709201827.AA21491@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <19970920163121.26878@cons.org> (message from Martin Cracauer on Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:31:21 %2B0200)
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>>>>> Martin Cracauer writes:
> In <19970920132312.OX18440@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch wrote:
>> As Martin Cracauer wrote:
>>
>> > Folks, [CC: to Joerg as wormcontrol meister]
>> >
>> > updating a 2.2.2 machine to 2.2-stable last week, I have two problems:
>> >
>> > 1) 'wormcontrol fixate' always fails with
>> > wormcontrol: ioctl(WORMIOFIXATION): Invalid argument
>> >
>> > The burner (Plasmon RF4100 1.26) worked without problems under 2.2.2.
>>
>> I've also noticed this last week after an upgrade. I've already told
>> Jean-Marc about it, but didn't investigate yet.
>>
>> Manual fixation worked around the problem for me...
> Manual?
> I thought the ioctl(fd, WORMIOCFIXATION, &f) (used in wormcontrol.c) is
> the only interface we have to the burner and that apparently got out
> of sync with the kernel.
Try scsi -f /dev/rworm0.ctl -s 3600 -c "e9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0"
if this does not work, then try
scsi -f /dev/rworm0.ctl -s 3600 -c "35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
followed by
scsi -f /dev/rworm0.ctl -s 3600 -c "e9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0"
> What other way to go? I think a friend of mine has some old
> Roentgenlaser, built after a famous old german book. Which track do I
> need to shoot at? I think that beast can burn holes in steel, should
> be sufficient :-]
> BTW, as expected booting a 2.2.2-kernel on a 2.2-stable world made
> wormcontrol work again.
So this means that the the bug is in wormcontrol rather than in the
driver ??
Jean-Marc
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