On Aug 30,  5:52pm, count@flatline.de (Andreas Kotes) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Reassigning defective blocks on direct SCSI devices

| > Try ftp.astron.com:/pub/netbsd/sdd.tar.gz
| 
| cool tool! but it doesn't work:
| 
| [count@pulse sdd]$ sudo ./sdd /dev/rz4
| sdd: process_args: : No such file or directory
| [count@pulse sdd]$ sudo ./sdd /dev/rz4c
| sdd: process_args: : Invalid argument
| [count@pulse sdd]$ sudo ./sdd /dev/rz4a
| sdd: process_args: : Invalid argument
| [count@pulse sdd]$ sudo ./sdd /dev/rrz4c
| sdd: process_args: : Invalid argument
| [count@pulse sdd]$ sudo ./sdd /dev/rrz4a
| sdd: process_args: : Invalid argument
| 
| what am I doing wrong?
| 
| and, can I use the whole capaticy disklabel shows for "c" as "a"?
| 

Nothing. It is my fault. I forgot that the pmax does not use the
MI scsi subsystem, but its own home brewed one! So there is no
way to access the scsi bus in the way other ports work.

It would be really nice if someone made the pmax use the MI scsi.

christos