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Date:      Fri, 9 May 1997 17:42:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WORM drive under 2.2
Message-ID:  <199705100042.RAA00626@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970509220557.WZ16385@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "May 9, 97 10:05:57 pm"

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> > There is a bug somewhere with the 6020i's so that you have to eject them
> > between sessions.
> 
> The HP6020i (and quite an incident, the Philips CDD2660 that
> incidentally appeared around the same time :) react allergically
> against the START STOP UNIT (start = 0, i.e. stop) command given in
> the default wormclose() handling.  After this, they require an
> explicit START STOP UNIT (start = 1).  The 4020i/CDD2000 didn't bother
> about this.
> 
> I think stopping the drive inside wormclose() should go away; that's
> the reason for why i didn't commit the previously posted patch yet.

Interesting.. in any case, the previous patch seems to work.
Or work better at least (I haven't actually tried to write a
disk yet).

-Archie

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