From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat May 10 05:28:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA03649 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 05:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA03644 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 05:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA04250; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:28:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA01068; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:17:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970510141738.GM34320@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <19970510040125.57291@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199705101128.VAA17071@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)