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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:35:19 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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To: Terry Barnaby <terry@beam.ltd.uk>, Michael Madore <mmadore@aslab.com>
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Subject: Re: Reproducible SCSI Error with Adaptec 7902
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> Hi Michael,
> 
> The Seagate ST336607LW has firmware: 0004.
> Seagate have stated to me that this is the latest.
> They have also stated to me:
> 
>   Issuing an unrecognized or illegal command to the drive can cause the
>   drive to go into a hardware fault mode where it will no longer respond,
>   and may or may not respond to a SCSI BUS reset. It seems, in this case,
>   the drive will no longer respond to any commands issued by the
>   controller.
> 
> Is this "feature" now common on SCSI drives ????

This would be a terrible violation of the SCSI spec.  Perhaps someone
forgot to disable a debugging mode in the drive?

--
Justin

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