Re: Reproducible SCSI Error with Adaptec 7902

Justin T. Gibbs
2003-03-14T17:25:58Z

> 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