Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 01:40:12 -0400 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Paul Saab" <paul@mu.org> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What happened? Message-ID: <200008081306.HAA51017@mail.fpsn.net> In-Reply-To: <20000807223028.A96096@elvis.mu.org>
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Alrighty, now, i'm totally confused. What will/should this do? as far as i can tell, it'll replace 1 with 0 on all lines that start with WCE, but that doesn't mean anything to me. Also, what do you mean by a bad firmware? Thanks, Simon On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:30:28 -0700, Paul Saab wrote: >Run this: > >EDITOR="/usr/bin/perl -i -pe 's/1/0/g if /^WCE/'" \ >camcontrol modepage da0 -P 3 -m 8 > >do this for all your drives which have bad firmware. > >-- >Paul Saab >Technical Yahoo >paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org >Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? > >Simon (simon@optinet.com) wrote: >> Great to here there is a fix :-) I have another seagate drive in the same box: >> >> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 >> da1: <SEAGATE ST318436LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device >> da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled >> da1: 17522MB (35885168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2233C) >> >> Same problem I suspect. The drive is just bigger in size. What would you suggest as the best fix for this? can I just >> update the firmware? or going with a different controller is better? I doubt i have write cache turned on as the drive >> seems to work much slower creating empty files than 5.4k 40 gig IDE maxtor drive (creates 10,000 empty files 10x faster >> than the SCSI i got). Still not exactly sure why. >> >> Thanks again, >> Simon >> >> On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:23:56 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> >> >> Here it is: >> >> >> >> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 >> >> da0: <SEAGATE ST39236LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device >> > ^^^^ >> >This firmware is known to interact badly with the ahc driver. You have >> >three options: >> > >> > - Use the Adaptec setup utility to disable write caching. >> > - Use a different SCSI controller. >> > - Get the firmware update from Seagate and fix the drive. >> > >> >-- >> >... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his >> >rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want >> >to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force >> >people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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