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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:00:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Dennis Ostrovsky <den@master.chem.yale.edu>
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Subject: Re: zip drive mounting and kernel msgs
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Dennis Ostrovsky wrote:

> the following stuff:
> 
> Jul 10 19:25:57 dirac /kernel: sd0(bt0:5:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
> Jul 10 19:25:57 dirac /kernel: sd0(bt0:5:0):  Not ready to ready
> transition, medium may have changed
> Jul 10 19:25:57 dirac /kernel: sd0(bt0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
> Invalid field in CDB
> Jul 10 19:25:57 dirac /kernel: sd0 could not mode sense (4). Using
> fictitious geometry
> 
> However the mount is successful after all of this stuff. Subsequent
> umounts and mounts work without problems. If I eject the disk, then
> re-insert it and try a mount I get that stuff again. Is this normal
> because it's removable media, or am I missing something?

This is perfectly normal.  The Zip, Jaz, and other IOMega products do not
fully implement all SCSI commands.  Unfortunately, one of the ones they
didn't implement is the one that says how big the disc is. :-/  The
fictitous geometry is correct however, so these messages may be safely
ignored.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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