From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 30 13:22:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18156 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18145 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA18430; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:20:53 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA14922; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:20:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA04527; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:12:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608302012.WAA04527@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Removeable disks on 2.1.5 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:12:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: moeding@bn.DeTeMobil.de Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9608301131.AA05706@dxca0n.bn.DeTeMobil.de> from Stefan Moeding at "Aug 30, 96 01:31:51 pm" 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-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stefan Moeding wrote: > 1. The Syquest is attached to the uk-driver. Is anyone working on the > driver code? Does the sd-driver support removeable disks? Yes, they are supported. What does your drive claim to be? > 2. I get kernel error messages 'device offline' when doing a 'mt status' > without a tape in the drive. It's a tape drive, so I would say that > offline is not exactly an error state. Any comments? `offline' is *exactly* that error state. No cartridge in drive. No status available. The errno message passing is insufficient to express all the details that SCSI devices used to report. Thus, the kernel (and syslog) message is more explanatory. -- 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. ;-)