Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:30:28 -0700 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Simon <simon@optinet.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What happened? Message-ID: <20000807223028.A96096@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200008081252.GAA50952@mail.fpsn.net>; from simon@optinet.com on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:26:31AM -0400 References: <200008080523.WAA08996@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200008081252.GAA50952@mail.fpsn.net>
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Run this: EDITOR="/usr/bin/perl -i -pe 's/1/0/g if /^WCE/'" \ camcontrol modepage da0 -P 3 -m 8 do this for all your drives which have bad firmware. -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? Simon (simon@optinet.com) wrote: > Great to here there is a fix :-) I have another seagate drive in the same box: > > da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > da1: <SEAGATE ST318436LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da1: 17522MB (35885168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2233C) > > Same problem I suspect. The drive is just bigger in size. What would you suggest as the best fix for this? can I just > update the firmware? or going with a different controller is better? I doubt i have write cache turned on as the drive > seems to work much slower creating empty files than 5.4k 40 gig IDE maxtor drive (creates 10,000 empty files 10x faster > than the SCSI i got). Still not exactly sure why. > > Thanks again, > Simon > > On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:23:56 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> Here it is: > >> > >> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > >> da0: <SEAGATE ST39236LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > > ^^^^ > >This firmware is known to interact badly with the ahc driver. You have > >three options: > > > > - Use the Adaptec setup utility to disable write caching. > > - Use a different SCSI controller. > > - Get the firmware update from Seagate and fix the drive. > > > >-- > >... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > >rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > >to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > >people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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