From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Mar 17 21:38:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2E01530B for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:37:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA01235; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:37:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:37:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SONY SMO-C501-09 not recognized under CAM In-Reply-To: <199903180533.WAA39505@panzer.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Yeah, I'm sure it won't work without quirks. We've just got to figure out > what those quirks are. (I knew I shouldn't have overloaded 'quirks') What I meant was that I thought the device was broken as designed. Ie: it wasn't possible to have it probe correctly unless there was a media unit in the drive. I mean, the thing is an ESDI disk using a converter. I didn't expect it to have much of a brain. > I think my patch for scsi_da.c will get you up and running without > media in the drive. And since it boots with media spinning, all we've > got to do is figure out what exactly happens when there is media in > the drive but not spinning. *nod* -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message