On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:01:17PM +0200, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 16:53:08 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > I have done this on a SPARCstation 1 with 1.6_RC1 and 1.6_RC3:
> > > esp0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x800000 level 3: ESP100, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
> > > sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST32430N, 0510> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> > 
> > What is the next line, the one which lists the properties of the current
> > mode (e.g. async, 8bit) ?
> 
> WARNING: sd-targets map is bogus, using default
> sd0: 2050 MB, 3992 cyl, 9 head, 116 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4198847 sectors
> RVDP TAG off
> sd0: async, 8-bit transfers

So it's not using tagged queuing

> 
> > Hum clicking sound. Each time I've heard this, the disk was about to fail.
> 
> I got this disk from somebody who has tried FreeBSD on it. He had the
> same problem. But SunOS runs without problems on it. We suspect SunOS
> has some workaround code for this disk.

Or he is just not using the part of the disk which has problems.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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