From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 22 18:11: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72F037B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA82651; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:10:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:10:45 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Graham Guttocks Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help disabling write caching upon bootup Message-ID: <20001022191045.A82631@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20001023005456.72831.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001023005456.72831.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com>; from graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:54:56PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 13:54:56 +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > You probably need to add "-P 3" to the command line options above, to make > > sure you're editing the saved parameters and not just the current mode page > > parameters. > > Yes, that seemed to stick, thanks mate. > > > Even though disabling write caching fixes the problem, you may want to talk > > to Seagate about getting updated firmware for your drives. > > This was my first course of action, but for the life of me I couldn't > locate firmware updates for any SCSI disks on seagate's website. Seagate (and IBM, FWIW) don't distribute firmware on their websites. You have to talk to their tech support folks to get it. Quantum does distribute firmware online, though. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message