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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]
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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