David Vasek wrote: > The drive is reported as offline. > > As I understand it from sys/scsi/sd.c, "drive offline" means an error was > reported by scsi_test_unit_ready() function call. Possibly the 520 > bytes/sector is not compatible with the controller the OP used or with the > OpenBSD driver/scsi subsystem? Don't know. I doubt that media (i.e. > blocks) is accessible in this condition. > > Regards, > David
Hi, I have an ATAPI LS-120 drive that always reports itself as being offline, but it functions properly.. it would however be nice if the device reported such online/offline events, but that could be a limitation of the hardware. sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, LS-120 VER5 00, F527> ATAPI 0/direct removable sd0: drive offline -Brynet
