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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:45:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange error
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810151843530.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810152236.QAA20556@panzer.plutotech.com>

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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > 'chio status' (after a 'chio move slot 15 drive 0')
> > ...
> > drive 0: <ACCESS,FULL>
> 
> Your changer shouldn't have any effect on a removable media drive...

I'm using this to verify that a media unit is loaded into the drive.

> Yep, it wants to be spun up.

Which is odd as auto-spinup is enabled.

> > WTF does 'sks:80,2' tell me?
> 
> It's a sense key specific error.  In this case, the "0x80" part means that
> the sense key specific value is valid.  The "2" part is the "actual retry
> count".  Here's a quote from the SCSI 2 spec:
> 
> =================
> The actual retry count field returns implementation-specific information on
> the actual number of retries of the recovery algorithm used in attempting to
> recover an error or exception condition. 
> 
>      NOTE 88 This field should relate to the retry count fields within the
> 	     error recovery page of the MODE SELECT command. 
> =================
> 
> Did you have a disk in the drive at the time?

Yep, see above.

I'll pull this unit and try my spare when I get home.

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