From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 11 11:01:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10979 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:01:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA10964 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:01:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (root@asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id UAA03375; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:00:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id TAA19907; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:51:54 +0100 (MET) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.8.4/8.7.3) id SAA05774; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:30:59 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:30:59 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199702111730.SAA05774@plm.xs4all.nl> From: Peter Mutsaers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/2698: scsi tape driver problem In-Reply-To: References: <199702101950.LAA20963@freefall.freebsd.org> <199702110000.BAA00374@plm.xs4all.nl> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:45:50 +0100, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said: JW> It reports your present mode to be fixed-length 512-byte. But JW> apparently, while the driver attempts to tell this to the JW> drive, your drive doesn't honor this. JW> 525 MB yes. But if your drive doesn't honor the blocksize JW> setting in the buffer header of a MODE SELECT command, it's JW> simply broken. I suggest getting a newer firmware revision. That'll be difficult. I bought it years ago in a second hand shop. I may have to learn to live with it (I use QIC 525 mostly anyway). But I still wonder why I see this problem under FreeBSD, and not under Linux. -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have