From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 20 17:55:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA03981 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 17:55:05 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA03969 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 17:55:02 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id UAA00530; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:53:58 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199501210153.UAA00530@hda.com> Subject: Re: NEC 4xi CDROM - what now? To: pw@snoopy.MV.COM (Paul F. Werkowski) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:53:57 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501192331.SAA01416@snoopy.mv.com> from "Paul F. Werkowski" at Jan 19, 95 06:31:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 964 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul F. Werkowski writes: > > > Q. How can you recognize a pioneer? > A. He's one with the arrows sticking out of his a^H but. > > It may be true that the NEC 4Xi is the first SCSI device to > hit FreeBSD-land that actually returns XS_BUSY status to > the Inquire command. The immediate problem is that this gets > into a code branch in scsi_base.c that looks like this: As I mentioned to Paul, I found a NEC 4Xi for $299.00 tonight so I bought it. I can read the NEC demo disk on an Adaptec 1542C (can't do much, no Windows). Is anyone out there using any NEC CDROM on a 174x without any trouble? Does anyone know where I can find the full spec for the NEC command set on the net? ftp.nec.com is useless. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267 -- Formerly hd@world.std.com. E-mail problems? Tell hdslip@iii.net