From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 07:10:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A63B16A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ndsuext.nodak.edu (ndsuext.NoDak.edu [134.129.92.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B7743F3F for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:10:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from echriste@ndsuext.nodak.edu) Received: from dyn231.iacc-tm4.ndsu.NoDak.edu (dyn231.iacc-tm4.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.92.231]) by ndsuext.nodak.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h8FE9lk24301; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:09:47 -0500 From: Eric To: Dan Langille In-Reply-To: <3F656FA2.29115.37D1B7DC@localhost> References: <3F656FA2.29115.37D1B7DC@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1063634982.1847.25.camel@dyn231.iacc-tm4.ndsu.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 15 Sep 2003 09:09:42 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blocksize error on sa X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:10:09 -0000 On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 06:52, Dan Langille wrote: > On 14 Sep 2003 at 23:18, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > An anonymous person who knows more about sa(4) than me agreed it's > > probably a mode select problem with the drive: > > > > > The 51000 is a piece of shit. With f/w varying all over the map. > > > My guess is that, yes, something in mode select isn't happening right. > > > Is "mode select problem" a reference to blocking modes (ie. variable > or fixed)? Is this something I can set at run time? What else can I > read? I had a similar problem with a different drive a few years ago. It turned out to be an incorrect quirk entry. Here's a link to the relevant post. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=21901+0+archive/2000/freebsd-scsi/20000910.freebsd-scsi Eric -- Eric