Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:06:07 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, DAVE CUSHING <DMCUSHING@cambrianc.on.ca>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 400 Message-ID: <20011101230607.A16075@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20011101225353.B9563@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:53:53PM %2B0100 References: <01Nov1.133922est.119057@charon.cambrianc.on.ca> <15329.39897.847099.976000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011101200836.A15233@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20011101225353.B9563@cicely8.cicely.de>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:53:53PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:08:36PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Some older DEC disks don't spin up automatically. I can't remember if > > > we send start-unit command to spin them up or not. If we don't, that > > > might explain things. > > > > SRM does on SHOW DEVICE. I'm pretty sure the SCSI/CAM layer sends > > a spinup as well. > > It does. > Most of my drives a configured not to spin up themself. > > But this one is broken: > <DEC RZ55 (C) DEC 0900> > It doesn't tell the right reason for not being ready so CAM don't > send a start command. RZ55 is a pretty ancient rebranded 300MB Micropolis drive. I *think* it is not fully ANSI SCSI-standard compliant. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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