blocksize error on sa

[Eric]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 06:52, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2003 at 23:18, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> > An anonymous person who knows more about sa(4) than me agreed it's
> > probably a mode select problem with the drive:
> > 
> > > The 51000 is a piece of shit. With f/w varying all over the map.
> > > My guess is that, yes, something in mode select isn't happening right.
> 
> 
> Is "mode select problem" a reference to blocking modes (ie. variable 
> or fixed)?  Is this something I can set at run time?  What else can I 
> read?

I had a similar problem with a different drive a few years ago.  It
turned out to be an incorrect quirk entry.
Here's a link to the relevant post.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=21901+0+archive/2000/freebsd-scsi/20000910.freebsd-scsi

Eric
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