From owner-cvs-sys Wed Apr 12 10:09:42 1995 Return-Path: cvs-sys-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA17706 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 10:09:42 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17700 ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 10:09:35 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA06997; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 10:08:49 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504121708.KAA06997@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi scsi_base.c To: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 10:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dufault@hda.com, phk@ref.tfs.com, ache@astral.msk.su, julian@tfs.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Bob Willcox" at Apr 12, 95 09:22:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1602 Sender: cvs-sys-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Peter Dufault wrote: > > > > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > > > > > > 2) I don't need now to reboot system with -verbose for > > > > partition/disklabel editing (it was the reason for this fix). > > > > I can give you a one line utility using scsi(8) that will print out > > the info if that will help. While I'm at it I'll write a format script, > > though I don't have any disks I can test it on. > > That'd be cool! How about one to enable write caching while you're > at it? I'd be glad to test it. Peter, have you ever used Roy Ness's SCSICNTL.EXE utility that allows you to muck with all the scsi control pages? If you write a utility like this that runs under FreeBSD I personally would be willing to pay for some of your time. As it stands now I have to boot DOS to do the drive tweaking I do on all the systems I ship and thus a similiar tool running under FreeBSD would save me that hassle. I know that you won't be able to have all the drive information for drive specific control pages that Roy has put in SCSICNTL.EXE, but even being able to dittle the standard control pages that deal with read allocation/write allocation and disconnect thresholds would be a big boon. Also the ability to do a drive verify and format operation would be nice. I will call Roy and see if perhaps I can get him to release the non- Adaptec specific portions of his source code under some form of NDA, if you are interested in this. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD