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Subject: Re: problem mounting /cdrom w/ 2.2.5-R (fwd)
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:25:39 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <19971126112610.49923@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 26, 97 11:26:10 am
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As J Wunsch wrote...
> As Burton Sampley wrote:
> 
> > Here's my assumption:
> > 
> > I must have attempted to mount the cdrom too soon after loading the cdrom
> > in the drive.  It's an old 4X SCSI Toshiba CDROM drive.  Instead of giving
> > me a device not ready error to the console (BTW, I just reviewed
> > /var/log/messages where it DID give a NOT READY error from /kernel) it
> > gave a device not configured error message.
> 
> Device not ready errors are silently discarded when opening a device,
> and ENXIO (`Device not configured') is returned.  AFAIK, this is the
> `politically correct' behaviour.  ENXIO can mean quite a number of
> errors (unfortunately).
> 
> And yes, Toshiba drives require quite some time until they are ready

Very much so yep. 

> after the insertion of a new medium.  As a general rule, wait until
> the yellow LED went off, and start the mount command then.  It would
> be better if they indicated a `Logical unit is in the process of
> becoming ready' instead (which FreeBSD repeatedly retries until
> success, or until a different message appears).

And it's not only the 4x Toshiba, the 12x XM5701 has the same quirk..

Bah. I'm going to try the 12x Toshiba with Digital firmware in it to
see if this makes any difference.

Wilko
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