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Date:      Sat, 10 May 1997 08:16:43 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au (Gavin Cameron)
Subject:   Re: Help with a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <19970510081643.NU52750@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199705100346.NAA16135@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>; from Gavin Cameron on May 10, 1997 13:46:24 %2B1000
References:  <199705100346.NAA16135@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>

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Hmpf. :-)

As Gavin Cameron wrote:

> (aha0:3:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5301TA 1895" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
                                                   ^
> sd0(aha0:3:0): Direct-Access 

I didn't notice _this_ in my previous followup.  This drive indeed
claims it were a hard disk! =:-)

> sd0(aha0:3:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB sks:c0,2
> sd0 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry

Well, for sure, the drive complains about mode page 4 (Rigid disk
geometry page) then.  The big question is why it announces itself as
type Direct-Access.

You could always work around this by:

Index: scsi/scsiconf.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/scsi/scsiconf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.85
diff -u -u -2 -r1.85 scsiconf.c
--- scsiconf.c	1997/05/03 22:23:13	1.85
+++ scsiconf.c	1997/05/10 06:15:48
@@ -388,4 +388,11 @@
 		"cd", SC_MORE_LUS
 	},
+	/*
+	 * Drunk Toshiba 5301 that pretends to be a Direct-Access drive.
+	 */
+	{
+		T_DIRECT, T_READONLY, T_REMOV, "TOSHIBA", "CD-ROM XM-5301TA", "*",
+		"cd", SC_ONE_LU
+	},
 #endif /* !UKTEST */
 #endif	/* NCD */


-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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