Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 02:14:28 -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.4.02.9810160204100.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199810160603.AAA23269@panzer.plutotech.com>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > ch0: 16 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 1 portal > > Ahh, interesting. A portal, even. Hmm. Indeed. A mammal media door. > What command did you use to try to format it? 'camcontrol cmd -n pass -u X -v -c "4 0 0 0 0 0"' > Hmm, dunno. Test unit ready and start unit are the normal commands to > send. I guess you could try a read capacity. Have you tried booting the > machine with a disk in the drive? (the da driver issues a read capacity > command at probe time) Oct 14 17:56:23 eisa-test /kernel: (da2:bt0:0:2:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oct 14 17:56:23 eisa-test /kernel: (da2:bt0:0:2:0): NOT READY asc:4,2 Oct 14 17:56:23 eisa-test /kernel: (da2:bt0:0:2:0): Logical unit not ready, initializing cmd. required Oct 14 17:56:23 eisa-test /kernel: (da2:bt0:0:2:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device(da2:bt0:0:2:0): removing device entry When I boot with media in the drive. Most annoying this behavior. I'm not sure why it thinks it needs to remove the device entry. > > If it would help I have the entire SCSI reference for the drive and the > > changer available. (2meg PDF @ 600 odd pages). My review of this document > > has turned up nothing but maybe someone a bit more clued in to the SCSI > > system would have better luck. > > Well, send it on. I'll take a look through it when I get a chance and see > if I can figure out what's going on. (or you can just give me the URL to > download it from somewhere) ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/C1716_scsi.pdf HP SureStore support was kind of anal about giving it to me and put it up on their ftp site in a hidden directory and removed it after I downloaded it so I'm not sure how keen they are to have this info broadbanded but its of limited use to anyone without the drive (well, not quite limited use) and they shipped a hardcopy of this thing with all the units they sold through 3rd parties back when. Oh, and they didn't tell me I couldn't. So have at. > Did this work under the old SCSI code? Do you know if it works with any > other OSes? I'm pretty sure they worked with VMS at one point. I'd test 'em with Linux but 1. linux doesn't support OPTICAL devices 2. linux has no way to set mode pages that I can tell. 3. linux has no scsi changer support. My NetBSD machines didn't seem to like them but I didn't try very hard and they are all running really old software. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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