blocksize error on sa

[Dan Langille]

On 15 Sep 2003 at 9:09, Eric wrote:

> 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

Where do I read on quirk entries?  apropos quirk gives nothing, and 
locate quirk gives me:

$ locate quirk
/usr/include/dev/usb/usb_quirks.h
/usr/src/sys/dev/pccard/pccard_cis_quirks.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.h

Thanks
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/