From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 17:13:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA17780 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA17768 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA27762 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:13:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA12066; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:02:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970418020244.YD57137@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:02:44 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: optical drives References: <199704171457.JAA00595@plains.nodak.edu> 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) In-Reply-To: <199704171457.JAA00595@plains.nodak.edu>; from Mark Tinguely on Apr 17, 1997 09:57:29 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Tinguely wrote: > notice his optical responses as a type 0 device, the drive I was working > with responds as a type 7 SCSI device: Except for some very old drives (like my SONY SMO), this is often jumper/DIP switch selectable. Type 7 is the intention per the SCSI specs, but they offer the compat switch so you can pretend a fixed disk for silly operating systems. -- 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. ;-)