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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems in ncr.c SCSI code
Date: 26 Jan 1997 10:42:54 GMT
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In article <5cdqfu$hg1@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>Wierd device. I cannot follow the logic of that vendor... This sense
>code is normally only returned for a drive that's just spinning up, or
>a tape drive that has a medium inserted, but is still bringing it into
Jörg, I can imagine that you're right and that you aren't, because...
>the working position. It's really weird to report it for a fixed disk
>drive that is continously spinning all the time.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm still working with a drive that had the strange behaviour of spinning
down without reason, but usually at night when I was sleeping and when
something was running on it. This drive reported the ``Logical unit is in
process of becoming ready'' message when it was spinning up again.
(Since I regularly backup that crazy drives it works flawlessly again :-) )
So it isn't really wired, but can point us to braindead or damaged
hardware. As most SCSI hard disks can be stopped from running by some SCSI
command, I can imagine that the drive reports that message, too, when it is
restartet. But I haven't tried this.
Martin
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