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Date:      Thu, 9 Feb 1995 09:36:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org, vak@cronyx.msk.su, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Subject:   Re: Using seagate driver with Future Domain 950: :-(
Message-ID:  <199502091736.JAA22018@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199502090443.PAA04234@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 9, 95 03:43:53 pm

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> 
> >I switched the 1375 disk for a Digital RRD40 cdrom. No message
> >loop this time, but the drive was incorrectly identified as holding
> >a cdrom size 400000 x 2048 blocks. An attempt to mount a CD resulted
> >in a panic: sea0:2:0 timed out, sending message invalid phase STATIN
> 
> 40* x 2048 seems to be a standard magic number that results if media
> detection is not working.  It also happens for the Ultrastor driver
> if the media is not present.

Here is the source of that magic number, from sys/scsi/cd.c:
        if (blksize < 512)
		blksize = 2048; /* some drives lie ! */
	if (size < 100)
		size = 400000;  /* ditto */

This occurs after the command to get the size, and is only done if
that command returned success.  Seems that some drives and/or controllers
are returning bad data :-(

> Bruce


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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