Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:59:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Agent Drek <drek@bigstudios.com> To: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Invalidating Pack / Interrupts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009220855190.82750-100000@hops.bigstudios.com> In-Reply-To: <20000921234343.A37161@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Fred Condo wrote:
>
> Your seagate drive has a bug in its firmware. You need to disable
> tagged queueing and the write-thru cache. The former you can do with
>
> camcontrol negogiate 0:3:0 -T disable
>
> at every boot (I added a line to /etc/rc.local). Chheck the camcontrol
> manpage to be sure of the exact designation for your drive.
>
> The latter you do through your SCSI BIOS.
>
thanks for the reply.
further notes for anyone searching the archive.
I ended up using this syntax:
camcontrol negotiate -n da -u 5 -T disable
Because it gave a clearer error message about /dev/pass5 not existing.
sh MAKEDEV pass6
and now it's in rc.local
thanks again!
--
Agent Drek
Big Animation Inc > 'digital plumber'
http://www.bigstudios.com
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