Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:07:35 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INSITE floptical anybody ??? Message-ID: <199611070807.JAA23177@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199611062307.AAA22415@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 7, 96 00:07:42 am
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In reply to J Wunsch who wrote:
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> (Redirected to -scsi)
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> As sos@FreeBSD.org wrote:
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> > I just had one of those drop on my table so I hooked it
> > up to the SCSI system, and well, its found but then it
> > hangs the SCSI subsystem. I glanced through some other
> > systems scsi files, and saw that the INSITE floptical
> > needs some kind of "unlock" sequence in order to
> > work proberly, anybody allready done the nessesary
> > magic ?? or will I have to get my fingers dirty in the
> > SCSI code too...
>
> I've once tried, too, and eventually gave up. :-( These parts
> came along with our SGI Indys, but don't worry, they basically
> turned out to be the worst crap i've ever seen in this area.
> Don't spend too much time into that driver, or the drive will be
> dead before you finished polishing the SCSI code... :-((
:), well I kind of got it into a working mode by looking some more
at the linux code. It seems it need a special MODE_SENSE
command that makes it work like a "normal" scsi device. It should
be dealt with via a quirk or something.
> Hint: pick the `od' driver to start with, it is already better in
> supporting unit attention conditions etc.
Good idea, I hacked sd.c, because thats the driver that found the
floptical, but thats easily changed...
Well, the drives are out of production, so it has no real value
I just thougt of it as a SCSI floppy drive :) which would be
nice to have at times...
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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