Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:04:01 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: michaelh@cet.co.jp, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE Cc: current@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Jaz drive with sysinstall Message-ID: <199607092204.IAA06894@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>} dmesg tells me that the Jaz reports that its a removable SCSI 2. Is this >} the source of the ILLEGAL REQUEST message? >No, the JAZ seems not to like some field in a request >sent to it and rejects the command. The command that >caused this appears to have been the geometry query, >which leads to the "fictious geometry" being used. >A possible cause of this might be that there was no >media loaded into the drive, I suppose ... >} ... >} sd2(ncr0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB >} sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry Iomega zip drives give the same message when media is present. I guess the problem is a low quality implementation of the SCSI spec. Bruce
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