Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:42:43 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre Message-ID: <199701140112.LAA21648@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970113222045.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 13, 97 10:20:45 pm"
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > 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? Yes. > 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. In fact, that's exactly what I did to confirm that it was indeed the Mode Sense that was causing the error. I'm fairly sure that the Jaz firmware intentionally refuses to claim any particular geometry. > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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