From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 13 13:25:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA06477 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA06418 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:25:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA19770 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:24:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA02908; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:20:46 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199701130015.KAA13172@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701130015.KAA13172@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jan 13, 1997 10:45:46 +1030 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)