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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:56:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Eugene Ossintsev <osgene@web.de>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: strange name of a device
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Eugene Ossintsev wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> Who knows, why that device is so funny named?
>
> from dmesg:
>
>    acd0: CD-RW <@A CD\^LB C\^E $81"0B> at ata1-master PIO4
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> It varies from stable to stable. Sometimes it's displayed correctly
> as
>
>    acd0: CD-RW <LG CD-RW CED-8120B> at ata1-master PIO4
>
> --
> Eugene Ossintsev

I saw something like this many years ago due to a bad cable.  The
harddrive would work somewhat, but the BIOS scan for drives showed garbage
similar to what you're showing.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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