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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 1995 20:39:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        jaykuri@interaccess.com (Jay Kuri)
Cc:        julian@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Help! My SCSI-2 CD rom is timing out
Message-ID:  <199511160139.UAA08240@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951115164047.21271A-100000@flowbee.interaccess.com> from "Jay Kuri" at Nov 15, 95 05:06:48 pm

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> Could it be 
> that the spin-up scsi command is not being sent?

No, it is sent when the device is open...

> 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,

I don't know; can you do something like "sleep 1000 < /dev/some-harmless-cd"
(maybe /dev/rcd0d) so that it is spun up before trying to mount?  If you
can't successfully "cp /dev/null /dev/various-cd" we know there are basic
problems.
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Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
HD Associates, Inc.         Voice: 508 433 6936
dufault@hda.com             Fax:   508 433 5267



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