>Number:         3835
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Shouldn't MI SCSI do a reset on drive not ready errors?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul  7 12:20:01 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Chris Jones
>Organization:
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Chris Jones                                    cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu
           Mad scientist in training...
"Is this going to be a stand-up programming session, sir, or another bug hunt?"
>Release:        July 6, 1997
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD clydesdale.math.montana.edu 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (CLYDESDALE) #2: Fri Jun 20 12:18:19 MDT 1997 cjones@clydesdale.math.montana.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CLYDESDALE i386


>Description:
My system has a slightly flakey power supply and a DEC SCSI disk.  The
power to the disk will occasionally fail, and the disk will not spin back
up after even a brief power loss.  As it is the only piece of hardware
affected by the problem, it creates difficulties:  My syslog fills up with
drive not ready errors, and I can't access the disk.  Since the kernel
manages to spin up the disk on boot, I know that this is a supported
operation; shouldn't it try the same thing when it suddenly gets a
drive not ready?
>How-To-Repeat:
See above.
>Fix:
See above.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: