Subject: Support for removable MSCP devices
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/31/1998 16:33:19
It seems to me that the kernel does not do the right thing when an MSCP
device goes offline and then again becomes available.  I first noticed
that when I disabled port A on my RA90 and then reenabled it (for no
particular reason whatsoever.  I was taking the system down anyways.)
The system never recovered.  I just kept getting:
raioerror
 unit available (unknown subcode) (code 4, subcode 0)
In this case it didn't matter, but ironically it ended up mattering later
on today.  I was trying to write RX50 floppies, but it seems that after I
changed floppies, the RX50 could not be accessed.  I got the same error
message.  I had to reboot between disks.

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