From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 13 16:26:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA03212 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:26:25 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA03204 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:26:23 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA15005; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:06:40 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507132336.JAA15005@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SCSI disk wedge To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:06:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, karl@Mcs.Net, tom@misery.sdf.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507131408.JAA01530@Jupiter.mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at Jul 13, 95 09:08:23 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1444 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Karl Denninger stands accused of saying: > I understand this, but the problem has been manifest on two different > configurations with different vendors of hardware, disks, and two different > controllers. Still haven't seen a list of disk model numbers, firmware revisions & the like. The Identify strings at startup would be a start. > Do you really mean to try to tell me that two vendors have *identical* > firmware problems? Firmware problems with similar symptoms, sure. > I rate the probability of that somewhere close to a comet hitting the earth > today, especially when 2.0BSDI (which uses large transfer sizes and > contiguous operations) has no such problem. If you weren't in such a responsible position, (and I covered in shame after my recent outburst) I'd fall off my seat reading this. > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity You're still not helping; even after Rod has enumerated _painfully_ the list of things that are _needed_ to be known before anything can usefully be done about your problem. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[