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From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien)
Subject: Re: start/stop unit
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 15:14:04 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199605180809.KAA09820@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 18, 96 10:09:16 am
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> 
> As Peter Dufault wrote:
> 
> > You need at least a "-c" in there to tell it that this is a command,
> > i.e.,
> > 
> > > scsi -f /dev/rsd0.ctl -c "1b 0 0 0 0 0"
> > 
> > You also need to be prepared to discover bugs in the SCSI system -
> > this may work, this may not.
> 
> The least you need to add (from my observation) is something like ``-s
> 20'' to increase the command timeout.  The default 2 seconds is too
> small.
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 
The "-c" flag was important. Together with "-s 20" it works fine.

Robert