From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 10 11:50:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06353 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:50:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06338 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:50:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id UAA25152 for FreeBSD-SCSI@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:50:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA00662; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:38:55 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19981210203853.46005@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:38:53 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: FreeBSD-SCSI@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tandberg TDC 3600 on CAM, 3.0-R Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <19981210091512.30601@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Jacob on Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 01:35:27AM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Matthew Jacob wrote: > The 'no compression' stuff is separate from probing. The tape driver Sure. It happens the first time the tape drive is attempted to be opened. The mode select failure is fatal however, so it wouldn't have helped my colleague much to not fix this one. ;-) I was merely suggesting that setting the quirk bit for `don't ask for the compression page' could be automated, instead of depending it on some firmware revision (as i did by now). Iff the first mode select in saopen() fails, and that quirk bit ain't set already, set the bit, and retry the mode select. If you're lucky, it gets through, and you can remember it next time. > I'm kind of inclined to believe that if < SCSI2 that VPD info is very > likely not there (that's serial #). I also think so, and i remember one comment from Kenneth (or was it Justin, i eventually forgot) that they were seeking some solution like this (but there wasn't enough time left before 3.0R was due). -- 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message