Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:46:20 -0700 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Simon <simon@optinet.com> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What happened? Message-ID: <20000807224620.A96386@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200008081306.HAA51017@mail.fpsn.net>; from simon@optinet.com on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:40:12AM -0400 References: <20000807223028.A96096@elvis.mu.org> <200008081306.HAA51017@mail.fpsn.net>
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It turns off write caching which will fix your problem. Seagate has a bug in their firmware which causes problems. The command I gave you fixes the problem you are seeing. paul Simon (simon@optinet.com) wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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