Subject: Re: new si and reselects
To: Gordon Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@SJ.Xenotropic.COM>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/20/1995 08:52:12
On Mon, 20 Nov 95 11:34:40 EST
"Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com> wrote:
> That is caused by SCSI protocol disagreement between our sd.c and
> the Emulex firmware. I've seen it too, and it appears to always
> be in situations where we want to send a 10-byte command and the
> Emulex thinks that should be a 6-byte command. Presumably this
> means the Emulex doesn't care about those extra command bytes...
> I left this message in there so we would know when it happens,
> and to gather some data about it. Eventually we can turn it off.
Heh, well, considering that these Emulexes are the infamous
SDEV_FORCELUNS devices, I don't doubt for a second that they're goofing
on the SCSI protocol :-) Thanx for the clarification.
> Your disk would probably like to be reformatted...
Mmm, joy. While I'm not really looking forward to doing that, it is
probably a good idea. Guess I'll let an rdump run while I'm at work
today and write a quick little hack to do the format...
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