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From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
Message-Id: <199610051550.IAA22767@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: verbose but cryptic error
Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org
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  > Can you run the following on your drive?
  > 
  > scsi -f /dev/rsd2.ctl -v -c "1a 0 0 0 v:i1 0" 12 -i 12 \
  > "{mode data len} i1 {type} i1 {device-specific} i1 {blkdesc len} i1 \
  > {density} i1 {numblk} i3 {reserved} i1 {bllen} i3"
  > mode data len:  15 
  > type:  0 
  > device-specific:  16 
  > blkdesc len:  8 
  > density:  0 
  > numblk:  0 
  > reserved:  0 
  > bllen:  512 

Sure.  I get

  mode data len:  11 
  type:  0 
  device-specific:  0 
  blkdesc len:  8 
  density:  0 
  numblk:  3450902 
  reserved:  0 
  bllen:  512 

  > Btw., what drive (vendor) is it?

Oops.  I forgot to say that it was a Micropolis 2217.