Subject: Re: kern/23079: sd(4) fails to get geometry from SCSI disk
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/07/2003 18:35:14
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:29:17PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:57:36PM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > I doubt that. I've used various of those disks (IBM DCAS 4GB) with NetBSD
> > and other operating systems for years without any problems. It is much
> > more likely that something is broken in NetBSD-current's "sd" driver.
> 
> Well, it does not happen for all disks:
> 
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <IBM, DCAS-32160, S65A> disk fixed
> sd0: fabricating a geometry
> sd0: 2063 MB, 2063 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4226725 sectors
> sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
> 
> and on another machine:
> 
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST39175LC, 0001> disk fixed
> sd0: 8683 MB, 11721 cyl, 5 head, 303 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17783240 sectors
> sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 16-bit (20.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing

Which SCSI drivers do these systems use? My LX uses esp(4).

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/