On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Eduardo E. Horvath wrote:
> > sd1 at scsibus targ 4 lun 0: <MATSHITA, PD-2 LF-D100, A113> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
> > sd1: could not mode sense (4/5); using fictious geometry
> > sd1: 595MB, 595 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1218960 sectors
> 
> Are you sure it's a 512 bytes/sect device?  If it's not, the SCSI
> controller could request a transfer of 1 sector (512 bytes), but the
> drive could be trying to send 1 sector (2048 bytes).  If the driver
> for the HBA does not handle overruns/underruns correctly it could
> result in a hang as one side is waiting for data the other isn't
> prepared to send or visa-versa.

No, as someone else already pointed out, it's probably 2048 bytes/sec. 
Do se have some nice place to note that per-device fake-geometry like in
the previous hint you gave me for recognizing the disk as sd (not cd), or
is this the point where I have to start adding things? :>


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