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Date:      Tue, 14 May 1996 13:25:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
To:        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: JAZ drive mounted async
Message-ID:  <199605141725.NAA09242@Glock.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199605141712.KAA24831@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at May 14, 96 10:12:36 am

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Justin T. Gibbs writes:

> >    3 words - Don't Do It.  :-)  Anyway, it seems that the system
> >gets into deadlock when you mount a JAZ drive async and it spins
> >down after 30 minutes idle time.  The JAZ will never spin back
> >up...  Any ideas?

> So when you mount it sync, it does spin back up?  What prints to your
> console when it does spin up?

	Not a thing.  It just spins back up.  I'm assuming that
the scsi drivers are assuming that the drive is mounted sync and
tell it to spin up before writing data to it, but *not* before
writing inode data to it (since that would be done already in a
sync mount).


-matt

-- 
Matthew C. Mead

mmead@Glock.COM
http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/



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