Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 22:25:25 -0500 From: Natty Rebel <dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with teac cdroms + symbios based adapters? Message-ID: <19990302222525.A4752@ikhala.tcimet.net> In-Reply-To: <199903020510.WAA76988@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:10:49PM -0700 References: <19990301194216.A2001@ikhala.tcimet.net> <199903020510.WAA76988@panzer.plutotech.com>
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Quoting Kenneth D. Merry (ken@plutotech.com): > Natty Rebel wrote... > > Hey all (I had posted this message to hackers, but scsi is more appropriate ...) > > > > I've recently purchased a Teac 516s 16x cdrom along with a Kouwell 801V10B > > Fast SCSI adapter (Symbios 53C810a chipset). My problem is that the cdrom > > drive fails to recognise any cd's placed in it. Here are some results > > using camcontrol: > > > > # camcontrol tur -n cd -v > > (pass0:ncr0:0:3:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > (pass0:ncr0:0:3:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 > > (pass0:ncr0:0:3:0): Medium not present > > Unit is not ready > > > > the above is the main message that i see (i.e. 'medium not present' and > > 'unit is not ready'). > > Hmm, interesting. > > > what's funny is that i can send the eject command > > and the tray will eject. > > That's not surprising at all. In fact, I would expect that with tray-type > drives. I'm curious as to why this is? > > > i've called teac tech support and the rep said > > there were some known issues with cam and symbios based chipsets. is this correct? > > How would someone from Teac know about CAM at all? Sure, there are some > bugs in the NCR/Symbios driver. They mainly due to the fact that no one is > actively maintaining it. Since that's the case I'll see what I can do. Since the drive does respond to the eject command, maybe this combo can be made to work. [snippage ...] > Well, I'm not sure what we can really do about it. If the drive says > there's no media present, there's probably not a whole lot you can do to > convince it otherwise. > > Does that controller/drive combination work on any other OS? Not sure, but I'll check with the other BSD's and Linux groups. > I kinda suspect that it won't. At least if you can tell them "it doesn't work > under Windows", they might take the drive back and give you one that works. Well my wife has a win95 box. Maybe I'll do some tinkering late one nite, while she's asleep of course ... #;^) > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@plutotech.com Thanks for the help ... #;^) -- natty rebel harder than the rest ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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