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Date:      Sat, 12 Sep 1998 15:33:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, cattelan@thebarn.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird Toshiba CD causes CAM to crash.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809121532150.18789-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199809122214.QAA26512@panzer.plutotech.com>

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I seem to recall that older Toshiba's had a jumper option that allowed
them to report themselves as removable direct access devices.

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> Wilko Bulte wrote...
> > As Russell Cattelan wrote...
> > > I has to put his hack back into scsi_da.c
> > > 
> > > +     if (!strncmp(*(&(&cgd->inq_data)->product),"CD-ROM XM-5401TA",
> > > +            strlen("CD-ROM XM-5401TA"))){
> > > +       printf("daasync skipping device that looks like CD\n");
> > > +       break;
> > > +     }
> > > + 
> > >       if (cgd->pd_type != T_DIRECT)
> > >         break;
> > > 
> > > Other wise it would crash someplace in "dadone" at boot time.
> > > 
> > > I know this drive is a little weird.
> > 
> > Said drive worked fine for me in the non-CAM world. I would not generally
> > qualify Toshiba CDs as weird, they tend to be pretty good. Currently I have
> > a 12x that replaced the 5401:
> > 
> > TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5701TA 0557
> 
> Most Toshiba drives work just fine.  His problem is that his drive probes
> as a direct access device for some reason.
> 
> Ken
> -- 
> Kenneth Merry
> ken@plutotech.com
> 
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