Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:20:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre Message-ID: <Mutt.19970113222045.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701130015.KAA13172@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jan 13, 1997 10:45:46 %2B1030 References: <Mutt.19970112214715.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701130015.KAA13172@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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As Michael Smith wrote: > lovely /kernel: sd6(ncr0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB > lovely /kernel: sd6 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry > lovely /kernel: 1021MB (2091050 512 byte sectors) > > And the error is "I refuse to give you mode page 4", which is the > "rigid disk geometry page", ie. the page where most disk lie outrageously > about their supposed c/h/s geometry. That is, the ``invalid field'' is the page number? You could easily verify this by scsi -v -f /dev/rsd1.ctl -m 4 If this also fails with an Invalid field in CDB, that's the culprit. Btw., that's the information my sd0 presents (zero fields omitted): Number of Cylinders: 4177 Number of Heads: 8 Medium Rotation Rate: 5410 This even sounds reasonable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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