From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat May 18 04:52:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA26034 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 04:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA26007 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 04:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA24186; Sat, 18 May 1996 13:52:20 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA13383; Sat, 18 May 1996 13:52:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA09820; Sat, 18 May 1996 10:09:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605180809.KAA09820@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: start/stop unit To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 10:09:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605171249.IAA11989@hda> from Peter Dufault at "May 17, 96 08:49:24 am" 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Dufault wrote: > You need at least a "-c" in there to tell it that this is a command, > i.e., > > > scsi -f /dev/rsd0.ctl -c "1b 0 0 0 0 0" > > You also need to be prepared to discover bugs in the SCSI system - > this may work, this may not. The least you need to add (from my observation) is something like ``-s 20'' to increase the command timeout. The default 2 seconds is too small. -- 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. ;-)