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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:59:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        jaykuri@interaccess.com (Jay Kuri)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help! My SCSI-2 CD rom is timing out
Message-ID:  <199511160159.RAA00416@ref.tfs.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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you should make a kernel with SCSIDEBUG
(options SCSIDEBUG)

then do:
scsi -f /dev/rcd0.ctl -d 15

this should make the  kernel  VERY VERBOSE
about any operations on that device
and should let us work out what is failing
use dmesg to get the debug output to a file.

> 
> 
>    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. 
> 




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