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Date:      Sat, 10 May 1997 14:17:38 +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:  <19970510141738.GM34320@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <19970510040125.57291@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199705101128.VAA17071@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>

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As Gavin Cameron wrote:

> Could it be the controller? When I do the Control-A trick at boot time
> the controller thinks that the CD is a harddisk and will even allow me
> to format and verify the drive.

I think it's the drive.  Ask the vendor, or have it replaced, or if
it's a gift :), apply the hack i've been posting.  This should get the
drive working as a CD-ROM under FreeBSD.  We can handle devices that
are lying about their identity. ;-)

-- 
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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