Subject: Re: kern/23079: sd(4) fails to get geometry from SCSI disk
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/07/2003 18:09:14
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:57:36PM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:53:42AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > I have the similar problem on my O2 with an IBM disk:
> >
> [...]
> > root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> > sd0: fabricating a geometry
> > sd0: fabricating a geometry
> > sd0: fabricating a geometry
> > sd0: fabricating a geometry
> >
> > Some IBM quirk issue?
>
> 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.
Seconded. I see it on systems that didn't show it before. Must be introduced
during mycroft's changes to sd.c (rev 1.203 - rev 1.210).
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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)