From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Nov 15 15:16:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA24166 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:16:39 -0800 Received: from flowbee.interaccess.com (jaykuri@flowbee.interaccess.com [198.80.0.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA24149 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:16:35 -0800 Received: (from jaykuri@localhost) by flowbee.interaccess.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA22827; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:06:49 -0600 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:06:48 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Kuri To: Julian Elischer , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! My SCSI-2 CD rom is timing out In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have made what may or may not be a worthwhile discovery in reference to this drive. It appears that if the CD-Rom is spun-up, it will mount the drive without a hitch. However, if the drive is not spun up already, it does not mount... instead the 'cdo(aic0:1:0): timed out' message comes up. This is not really consistant.. I don't know how to force the drive to spin up. But if I try to mount the cd and it times out, many times if I re-issue the mount command as soon as I get the prompt back, it will mount. This is not by any means absolutely consistant. But it is the only way I can mount it at all. Could it be that the spin-up scsi command is not being sent? or perhaps that the scsi-subsystem is not tolerant enough with timings to let the cd-rom spin up before erroring? Just fumbling along here and guessing, Jay K.