From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 6: 3:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bigstudios.com (mail.bigstudios.com [216.126.75.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F266B37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost([127.0.0.1]) (1354 bytes) by mail.bigstudios.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:59:38 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jul-5) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:59:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Agent Drek To: Fred Condo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Invalidating Pack / Interrupts In-Reply-To: <20000921234343.A37161@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Fred Condo wrote: > > Your seagate drive has a bug in its firmware. You need to disable > tagged queueing and the write-thru cache. The former you can do with > > camcontrol negogiate 0:3:0 -T disable > > at every boot (I added a line to /etc/rc.local). Chheck the camcontrol > manpage to be sure of the exact designation for your drive. > > The latter you do through your SCSI BIOS. > thanks for the reply. further notes for anyone searching the archive. I ended up using this syntax: camcontrol negotiate -n da -u 5 -T disable Because it gave a clearer error message about /dev/pass5 not existing. sh MAKEDEV pass6 and now it's in rc.local thanks again! -- Agent Drek Big Animation Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.bigstudios.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message