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Date:      Sat, 10 May 1997 16:32:30 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
To:        Gavin Cameron <gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Help with a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <19970510163230.54733@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199705101128.VAA17071@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>; from Gavin Cameron on Sat, May 10, 1997 at 09:28:31PM %2B1000
References:  <19970510040125.57291@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199705101128.VAA17071@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>

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Gavin Cameron scribbled this message on May 10:
> > 
> > my first guess was that it might of been jumpered for "unix boot" mode
> > which means that any cdrom in the drive becomes a "hard disk" in the
> > drive... my plextor has a jumper option that sets this...
> > 
> > with another drive that is behaving properly I decided to speak up.. :)

> I moved the drive over to my NT box with a 1542CP in it and the CD is also
> recognised as a harddisk.

not that surprising...

> I've pulled the cover off to see what's under the hood and to see if there
> are any jumpers that control the "unix boot" mode, but I couldn't find any.

I assume you saw jumpers... were they unlabeled?  and how many of them
are there?  if there are more than the ones for the ID you _MIGHT_ try
and remove one of them...

> How do I check if it's in this mode?

talk to Toshiba and see if they have docs for it...

> 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 doubt it...  just talk to Toshiba or do what Joerg suggusts...

ttyl...

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