From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 18:13:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA26598 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA26583 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.6.12/1.2) id TAA14293 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:12:14 -0700 From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199603210212.TAA14293@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: 2.1R SCSI subsystem coughs To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:12:13 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings! The scsi subsystem in 2.1R seems to disconnect devices occassionally. My most recent episode was a CD-ROM (NEC 6xe) disappearing after umounting a volume. Attempts to mount a new volume yield "device not configured". I've also noticed (and grown to live with) the fact that a device must be powered up at boot in order to be recognized. So, if my tape isn't powered on at boot, backups are not possible :-/ Apparently, the "reprobe" options to scsi(8) are a bit buggy (?) Is there any acceptable workaround for these problems (short of moving to -stable or -current)? Thanx, --don