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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 15:43:53 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org, vak@cronyx.msk.su, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Subject: Re: Using seagate driver with Future Domain 950: :-(
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>I switched the 1375 disk for a Digital RRD40 cdrom. No message
>loop this time, but the drive was incorrectly identified as holding
>a cdrom size 400000 x 2048 blocks. An attempt to mount a CD resulted
>in a panic: sea0:2:0 timed out, sending message invalid phase STATIN

40* x 2048 seems to be a standard magic number that results if media
detection is not working.  It also happens for the Ultrastor driver
if the media is not present.

Bruce